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Fair Maiden winning the La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26
A longshot winner of the opening day Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, trainer Eoin Harty s Fair Maiden will seek to validate that victory as she heads a solid field of 12 older fillies and mares going seven furlongs in Saturday s Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita.
Dismissed at 20-1 in the Dec. 26 La Brea, Fair Maiden rallied for an emphatic 2 ¼ length win, as a pair of Bob Baffert fillies, Golden Principal and Merneith, ran second and third. Harty, a former assistant to Baffert, will have to again contend with those two plus yet another Baffert runner, Qahira.
Hard Not to Love to Defend Title in Santa Monica
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Frontrunning Tizamagician Doing Real Well Ahead Of San Pasqual - Horse Racing News
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King Guillermo breezing at Churchill Downs under Miguel Mena on Aug. 15, 2020
The Richard Baltas-trained Idol, Richard Mandella s Tizamagician and Florida invader King Guillermo head a compact field of five older horses going a mile and one eighth in Saturday s Grade 2, $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita. To be run for the 83rd time, the San Pasqual is an iconic prep to the G1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 6.
Lightly raced Idol, who is owned by Calvin Nguyen, was attentive to the pace en route to a close second place finish going a mile and one sixteenth in the G2 San Antonio Stakes here on Dec. 26 and will once again get the services of eastern-based Gabriel Saez on Saturday. An impressive seven furlong maiden winner in his second start at Churchill Downs Sept. 26, Idol, a 4-year-old colt by Curlin out of the A.P. Indy mare Marion Ravenwood, then aired by 5 ¾ lengths in a mile and three-sixteenths allowance at Churchill Nov. 8.