Faypien Back in SoCal for Beverly J. Lewis Stakes

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Faypien wins the Angels Flight Stakes

Los Alamitos Race Course may not have a graded stakes during its three-week, late-summer meeting, but their opening Saturday card will feature graded quality.

The headliner Sept. 9 at the Cypress, Calif., racetrack will be Baoma Corporation's Faypien in the $75,000 Beverly J. Lewis Stakes.

The Bob Baffert-trained Ghostzapper  filly exits a second-place run in the Aug. 5 Longines Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, and will likely use the six-furlong Lewis as a prep for a run in the Breeders' Cup. Prior to her trip to New York, the Florida-bred filly won the two-turn Summertime Oaks (G2) at Santa Anita Park by a head over Mopotism.

BALAN: Faypien Edges Mopotism in Summertime Oaks

Faypien will only have to deal with one stakes winner among the six other fillies entered—Rockingham Ranch's Chalon. Before her fourth-place finish in the Test, 3 1/4 lengths behind Faypien, the speedy Peter Miller-trained Dialed In  filly won the Jersey Girl Stakes by 6 1/2 lengths at Belmont Park.

Also on Los Alamitos' Saturday card is the $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes for California-bred or sired horses.

Defending race winner Soi Phet, a 9-year-old Tizbud  gelding, will look to win his fourth stakes at Los Alamitos, but John Parker's homebred Gold Rush Dancer enters with momentum off a breakthrough score in the Aug. 13 Longacres Mile Handicap (G3) at Emerald Downs.

BALAN: Gold Rush Dancer Dominant in Longacres Mile

The 4-year-old Private Gold colt is the only entrant in the one-mile test who has won a stakes in 2017.


Entries: E.B. Johnston S.

LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE, Saturday, September 09, 2017, Race 3

  • STK
  • 1m
  • Dirt
  • $75,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 2:58 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Lucky J Lane (CA) Edwin A. Maldonado 122 Steve Knapp 8/1
2 2Start a Runnin (KY) Brayan Pena 122 Hector O. Palma 15/1
3 3Gold Rush Dancer (CA) Evin A. Roman 124 Vann Belvoir 2/1
4 4Soi Phet (CA) Kent J. Desormeaux 124 Leonard Powell 5/2
5 5He Will (CA) Rafael Bejarano 122 Jerry Hollendorfer 3/1
6 6El Huerfano (CA) Flavien Prat 124 Peter Miller 4/1


Entries: Beverly J. Lewis S.

LOS ALAMITOS RACE COURSE, Saturday, September 09, 2017, Race 8

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $75,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 5:28 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Queen Laila (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Flavien Prat 120 Simon Callaghan 9/2
2 2Delitefull Lady (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mario Gutierrez 118 Richard Baltas 8/1
3 3Faypien (FL) Rafael Bejarano 122 Bob Baffert 4/5
4 4Freedom Journey (CA) Brayan Pena 120 Hector O. Palma 20/1
5 5Princess Karen (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Kent J. Desormeaux 120 Jeff Bonde 8/1
6 6Chalon (KY) Martin Garcia 122 Peter Miller 4/1
7 7Auntjenn (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Edwin A. Maldonado 120 Peter Miller 15/1