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Smooth Like Strait, Field Pass Face Off In Mathis Brothers Mile Sponsored by:
Smooth Like Strait and Umberto Rispoli, shown winning the Twilight Derby
Trainer Michael McCarthy s Smooth Like Strait and Mike Maker s Field Pass headline Saturday s Grade 2, $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile (turf), one of five graded stakes on Santa Anita s opening day card this Saturday which has attracted a competitive field of seven sophomores.
A two-time graded winner, Smooth Like Strait comes off a narrow head defeat going a mile and one eighth on turf in the G1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on Nov. 28 and should relish the cutback in distance.