While her trainer and part owner may be a bit preoccupied about 2,000 miles away May 7, Decked Out will look to win her second straight grade III event over the Santa Anita Park turf course in the $100,000 Senorita Stakes (gr. IIIT).
Trainer Keith Desormeaux and co-owner Big Chief Racing will likely be focused on Exaggerator in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) Saturday, but the 3-year-old Street Boss filly could be just starting to roll after her breakthrough score last time out in the Providencia (gr. IIIT) April 9. It was her first victory against winners (she went winless in eight starts after breaking her maiden in her May 2015 debut) and the margin of 2 3/4 lengths was impressive over a yielding turf course.
LAMARRA: Decked Out Flies By, Takes Providencia
Fellow Senorita entrants Mirage and Swift Lady defeated Decked Out in minor stakes before the Providencia, and will be looking for their first graded score in the mile grass race.
Bob Baffert-trained Swift Lady may be the most serious challenger, riding a three-race win streak. But those victories have all been at sprint distances—she broke her maiden at 5 1/2 furlongs on the Los Alamitos Race Course dirt and won back-to-back races down the Santa Anita hillside turf course at the allowance level, and then in the Sweet Life Stakes Feb. 14.
A duo of Jerry Hollendorfer-trained stakes winners—Stays in Vegas and Kiss N Scat—also figure to be a factor. Allowance winners Sheeza Milky Way and Be Mine, last-out claiming victress Compel, and maiden winner Fourth Watch complete the field.
Santa Anita Park, Saturday, May 07, 2016, Race 9Entries: Senorita S. (G3T)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Fourth Watch (KY) Joseph Talamo 120 Carla Gaines 10/1 2 2Mirage (IRE) Alonso Quinonez 122 Simon Callaghan 10/1 3 3Decked Out (KY) Edwin A. Maldonado 124 J. Keith Desormeaux 2/1 4 4Kiss N Scat (KY) Martin Garcia 122 Jerry Hollendorfer 12/1 5 5Sheeza Milky Way (KY) Santiago Gonzalez 120 Peter Eurton 10/1 98 6Swift Lady (FL) SCRATCHED 0 UNKNOWN - 6 7Be Mine (KY) Tyler Baze 120 Philip D'Amato 5/2 7 8Compel (FR) Brice Blanc 120 Richard Baltas 20/1 8 9Stays in Vegas (KY) Alex O. Solis 122 Jerry Hollendorfer 5/2
