Stakes-Winning Eda the Speed of Del Mar’s Desi Arnaz

Eda  and Lady T , 1-2 in the six-furlong Anoakia Stakes last month at Santa Anita Park, meet once more Nov. 13 at a special venue and over an additional sixteenth of a mile. The 2 juvenile fillies are amongst 5 entered within the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes going 6 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar.

Baoma Corp’s Eda, victorious by 2 1/4 lengths at 1-5 odds within the Anoakia, once more looms a short-priced favourite. Two of her 4 rivals are maidens, and a type of with wins, Endless Thirst , did so in a slow time against California-breds at Los Alamitos Race Course.

This would be the thirty fourth working of the Desi Arnaz, although solely its seventh native version of the race. The primary 27 runnings passed off because the Moccasin Stakes on the now-demolished Hollywood Park, the place the Nationwide Soccer League’s SoFi Stadium at the moment sits.

Eda, a daughter of Munnings  , races out of the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, a seven-time Del Mar training champ, a 14-time winner of the Del Mar Futurity (G1), and a dual winner of the Desi Arnaz. The bay miss, a $550,000 purchase from Ocala Breeders’ Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, has two wins and a second in four starts. Besides her victory in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita Oct. 24, she was a close runner-up in the Sorrento Stakes (G2) at Del Mar in August.

“She’s fairly fast. She has numerous pace,” Prat stated after she received the Anoakia

Baffert additionally will run Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith’s Under the Stars  (Pioneerof the Nile), a fast-closing debut third in her debut who adds blinkers for her second start.

Abel Cedillo rides the half sister to 2012 Arkansas Derby (G1) winner and Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) runner-up Bodemeister  .

Tonito’s  also unleashed a powerful late kick to win her debut, doing so over six furlongs on the grass at Santa Anita Oct. 23. The Blame   filly went from 10th to first in the final quarter-mile to triumph by a length under Mario Gutierrez. She races for trainer Doug O’Neill and owners Anderson Farms, ERJ Racing, Reddam Racing, John Fielding, and Ryan Lloyd.

Lady T (Into Mischief  ) was second to Eda in the Anoakia and more than seven lengths ahead of her next closest rival. The $235,000 2020 Keeneland September Yearling buy raced by Jerry and Tina Moss comes out of the barn of trainer John Shirreffs. She was also second, beaten a nose, in a maiden race at Del Mar Sept. 5 in her only other start. She breaks from the fence under Victor Espinoza.