John C. Harris Top Three Return for Autumn Miss

Innovative , Lee's Baby Girl , and Warming —the top three finishers from last month's John C. Harris Stakes (G3T)—tussle over the Santa Anita Park turf once more in the $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes (G3T) Oct. 26. 

Little Red Feather Racing and Sterling Stables' Innovative closed with a rush to capture the John C. Harris for her first stakes victory. Despite cutting back to 6 1/2 furlongs for the Harris, the Complexity   filly got up in time for a neck score over Lee's Baby Girl and Warming in a three-way blanket finish at the wire. 

Innovative, twice a winner going two turns for trainer Phil D'Amato, stretches back out to a mile for the Autumn Miss. Jockey Ricardo Gonzalez, the filly's pilot in all seven of her career starts, has the call.

D'Amato will also saddle last-out allowance winner Slick  for those same connections and additional partner Marsha Naify. Slick sports the co-highest Equibase Speed Figure in the field, earning a 105 in her Sept. 28 victory. 

Lee's Baby Girl, trained by Carla Gaines, was caught late in the Harris after leading for much of the way. The daughter of Malibu Moon, claimed for $50,000 three starts back, is winless in seven tries at the mile distance.

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Warming was beaten just a half-length for second in the Harris after shipping out West for trainer Graham Motion. 

The Patrick Gallagher-trained Firenze Flavor , a grade 3 winner over this course in the Honeymoon Stakes (G3T) in May, looks to return to top form after two straight losses at Del Mar.