Faiza, And Tell Me Nolies to Battle in Santa Ysabel

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Faiza edges Pride of the Nile in the Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita Park

Led by the unbeaten Faiza , six top 3-year-old fillies in California meet March 5 at Santa Anita Park in the $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3), the track's final prep for the $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) April 8.

The 1 1/16-mile Santa Ysabel further serves as a qualifying race for the May 5 Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs, with points distributed on a 50-20-15-10-5 basis to eligible horses finishing in the first five finishing positions.

The likely favorite in the Santa Ysabel, Michael Lund Petersen's unbeaten dual graded stakes winner Faiza, is ineligible for Oaks points. Her trainer, Bob Baffert, is barred from running horses at Churchill Downs Inc. tracks through early July due to equine medication positives. Faiza was not nominated to the Kentucky Oaks.

Flavien Prat rides the daughter of Girvin  .


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The Santa Ysabel, originally scheduled for Feb. 25, was postponed until Sunday due to heavy rains that canceled racing last week in Southern California.

Other Santa Ysabel contenders include West Coast Stables' Pride of the Nile , a close second to Faiza in the Dec. 10 Starlet Stakes (G1) at Los Alamitos Race Course and the Jan. 28 Las Virgenes Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita; Peter Redekop's comebacking two-time graded winner And Tell Me Nolies , unraced since an eighth in the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Keeneland, and C R K Stable's late-running stakes winner Justique , third in the Las Virgenes.


Entries: Santa Ysabel S. (G3)

Santa Anita Park, Sunday, March 05, 2023, Race 3

  • Grade III
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 1:31 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Pride of the Nile (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Juan J. Hernandez 122 Doug F. O'Neill 5/2
2 2And Tell Me Nolies (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Ramon A. Vazquez 124 Peter Miller 3/1
3 3Blessed Touch (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Hector Isaac Berrios 120 Tim Yakteen 8/1
4 4Spanning the Globe (KY) Kazushi Kimura 120 Michael W. McCarthy 15/1
5 5Justique (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Victor Espinoza 120 John A. Shirreffs 4/1
6 6Faiza (KY) Flavien Prat 124 Bob Baffert 8/5