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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.
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