A lot has happened since then Becca Taylor last competition at Racetrack Los Alamitos. Starting with his first win in 2020, the 4-year-old has now won at Santa Anita . Park and Golden Gate Field; on soil, grass and synthetic materials; and there are three winning stakes.
In her second appearance at Los Alamitos, Becca Taylor will try her second bet, in the Great Lady M. Stakes (G2) July 4 at 6 1/2 for cocks and mares 3 and up. up. She will face six others, putting a near-perfect record. Only one goal conceded in the Irish O’Brien Stakes match on March 19 left Becca Taylor uncooked.
“She never beat anyone,” said owner/raider Nick Alexander. “She just seems to enjoy lying down and winning a little bit.”
Steve Miyadi, the coach of Becca Taylor, a half-California daughter of the deceased Old coating For Alexander, say that the filth has gotten bigger and stronger this year. Until her last race, the June 4 Desert Stormer Stakes (G3), Becca Taylor competed in Cal-bred and California-sired races or conditional allowance races. Juan Hernandez will go from No. 3.
Ironically, Becca Taylor goes the opposite way Elm Drive and Not easy from the Phil D’Amato stable. Alexander used both Miyadi and D’Amato as his trainers, and in tribute to his former trainer, the late Mike Mitchell, who ran his horses in Mitchell’s silk. D’Amato was Mitchell’s assistant for many years.
Like Becca Taylor, Elm Drive won her first race at Los Alamitos and she added Sorrento Stakes (G2) last summer at Del Mar. The difficult voyages led to two later untenable attempts in the fall of that year. A 3-year-old daughter of Mohaymen owned by Little Red Feather Racing, Elm Drive won the Seven-Feathed Angel Flight Bet at Santa Anita on May 8 in her comeback led by rider Ricardo Gonzalez, who has been riding. back in Great Lady M from Lesson 7.
“It was a tough distance to win from the bench, and I’m glad we did,” D’Amato said after Angel Flight. “I think she’s going to get a lot out of this race.”
Angels Flight was one of 63 wins for D’Amato in his spectacular Santa Anita encounter, as he led all coaches, with 23 more than second-placed Doug O’Neill. Ain’t Easy is one of the few horses in D’Amato’s stable that doesn’t contribute to that total.
After Ain’t Easy won Santa Anita’s Chandelier Stakes (G2) at the start of her second life last fall at the age of 2, she took a high-stakes at 3rd place. In three starts this year, she finished third in the March 6 Santa. Ysabel Stakes (G3) and April 9 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) before running without a place in the Eight Belles Days. May 6 presented by TwinSpires (G2) at Churchill Downs.
D’Amato trains Ain’t Easy, the daughter of Into Mischief , for Old Bones Racing Stable owners, Michael Lombardi and Joey Platts. The trainer named Kyle Frey on Ain’t Easy, who drew lesson 5.
Samurai Charm , third in Desert Stormer, is 3 to 3 at Los Alamitos. ‘s 5-year-old daughter First Samurai won at the track for the first time in 2019, took a break nearly two years after that race and added two more wins at Los Alamitos last year, including the Dark Mirage Stakes. She is five for eight overall, with two thirds.
Peter Miller coaches Samurai Charm for Downstream Racing, the stallion of mare breeders, J. Kirk and Judy Robison. The Robisons also campaign for the 2021 men’s sprint champion Jackie’s Warrior , who has been three years now. Ramon Vazquez will join Samurai Charm from lesson 4.
Lady Mystify (Edwin Maldonado, post 1), 2021 Remington Park Oaks (G3) contest winner, and grant winner Brandon’smylawyer (Mario Gutierrez, lesson 2), and Cover version (Ryan Curatolo, lesson 6) Round the field.
The Great Lady M. goes as the ninth race in a special holiday card on July 4 at Los Alamitos. The posting time for the first race has been moved to 1pm PDT instead of Los Alamitos’ usual 2pm. The Great Lady M. is scheduled to depart at 4:44 p.m. PDT.
Item: Miss M S. (G2)
LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE, Monday, July 4, 2022, Race No. 9
- Level II
- 6 1/2f
- Dust
- 200,000 dollars
- 3 yo & up Fillies and Mares
- 5:00 pm (local)
