Faiza Supplemented for the Starlet Stakes

Faiza, an extremely impressive debut winner Nov. 12 at Del Mar, will be supplemented for $10,000 to the $300,000-guaranteed Starlet Stakes (G1) Dec. 10 at Los Alamitos.

The Starlet, which is for fillies at 1 1/16 miles, is the first of four stakes events for 2-year-olds to be run during the six-day Winter Thoroughbred meet. Opening day is Dec. 9. First post each racing day (Dec. 9-11 and 16-18) is 12:30 p.m. PT.

Owned by Michael Lund Petersen, who won the 2015 Los Alamitos Futurity with Mor Spirit  , and trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Faiza, a daughter of Girvin   and the Smart Strike mare Sweet Pistol, won by 3 1/2 lengths and covered six furlongs in 1:09.28. She was a $725,000 purchase earlier this year by agent Donato Lanni at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Baffert, who has won the Starlet five times in a row—Dream Tree  (2017), Chasing Yesterday  (2018), Bast  (2019), Varda  (2020), and Eda  last year—may also start Doinitthehardway. Owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, Doinitthehardway, a daughter of Street Sense  , is a three-start maiden who has a pair of seconds and a third on her resume.

The main event for Dec. 11 is the Soviet Problem Stakes. Nominees to the one-mile race for fillies bred or sired in California include Big Celebration, Cast Member , Grazed My Heart, Loyal to a Fault, Nyvan, Smiling Lady, and Uncontrollable .

Entries for the Starlet will be taken Dec. 7 while the Soviet Problem will be drawn Dec. 8.