Fantastic Style Returns for Las Flores
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Fantastic Style rolls to victory in the Great Lady M Stakes.
Kaleem Shah's Fantastic Style, last seen racing July 11 during an impressive score in the Great Lady M Stakes (gr. II), is scheduled to make her 4-year-old debut March 20 in the $100,000 Las Flores Stakes (gr. III) at Santa Anita Park.
The Bob Baffert-trained daughter of Harlan's Holiday has a 4-1-1 record from six starts, but broke through for her first graded win in the Great Lady M and did so by an emphatic 3 1/2 lengths over grade II winner Living The Life and Sunday Rules. It is Sunday Rules' only loss in nine starts to date.
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Doubledown Stables' Ben's Duchess is the only other graded winner in the field—she closed to win the Oct. 4 L.A. Woman (gr. III)—but Finest City wasn't far off two starts back.
The Seltzer Thoroughbreds-owned City Zip filly was just a head back behind Lost Bus in the Jan. 23 Santa Monica (gr. II), but finished third in her last start, a Feb. 11 allowance/optional claimer.
Graded stakes-placed Amaranth, stakes winner Cadet Roni, and last-out allowance winner Sensitively complete the field.
Las Flores S. (gr. III)
Santa Anita Park , Sunday, March 20, 2016, Race 3
- 6f
- Dirt
- $100,000
- 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
- 1:30 PM (local)
| PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Finest City (PA) | Joseph Talamo | 118 | Ian Kruljac | 5/1 |
| 2 | 2Sensitively (KY) | Tyler Baze | 118 | Philip D'Amato | 5/2 |
| 3 | 3Fantastic Style (KY) | Rafael Bejarano | 120 | Bob Baffert | 8/5 |
| 4 | 4Ben's Duchess (KY) | Abel Lezcano | 123 | John W. Sadler | 3/1 |
| 5 | 5Amaranth (KY) | William Antongeorgi III | 118 | O. J. Jauregui | 12/1 |
| 6 | 6Cadet Roni (KY) | Gary L. Stevens | 118 | Mark Glatt | 6/1 |