Dream Tree Aims to Bounce Back in Las Flores

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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Chelsea Durand
Dream Tree at Saratoga Race Course

After suffering the first loss of her career in the La Brea Stakes (G1), grade 1 winner Dream Tree will look to return to form April 7 in the $100,000 Las Flores Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park.

Phoenix Thoroughbreds' Uncle Mo  filly enters Sunday's six-furlong race for fillies and mares off an eighth-place finish in the Dec. 26 La Brea at Santa Anita, where she gave way after leading early as the 3-5 favorite in that seven-furlong test. The Las Flores will mark the 4-year-old debut for Dream Tree, who won her first six starts.

Dream Tree capped her perfect three-start juvenile season with a Starlet Stakes (G1) win at Los Alamitos. Last year, she won the Las Virgenes Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita and the Prioress Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Bob Baffert before her La Brea loss.

Baffert will also send out Godolphin's Emboldened, a 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality also making her first start since the La Brea, where she secured her first grade 1 placing when finishing third. Emboldened has finished first or third in each of her four career starts.

The expected field of 10 includes last year's Santa Anita Oaks (G1) runner-up Spectator, who will make her first start since an off-the-board finish in the Aug. 4 Longines Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. A daughter of Jimmy Creed  trained by Phil D'Amato, Rick and Sharon Waller and Little Red Feather Racing's Spectator won the Sorrento Stakes (G2) at Del Mar as a juvenile.


Entries: Las Flores S. (G3)

Santa Anita Park, Sunday, April 07, 2019, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 4:41 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Amuse (KY) Drayden Van Dyke 120 Richard E. Mandella 5/1
2 2Spectator (KY) Flavien Prat 120 Philip D'Amato 8/1
3 3Lady Suebee (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joel Rosario 120 John W. Sadler 6/1
4 4True Royalty (FL) Aaron T. Gryder 122 David E. Hofmans 20/1
5 5Phantom Proton (PA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mario Gutierrez 120 Neil D. Drysdale 20/1
6 6Danuska's My Girl (KY) Geovanni Franco 120 Jerry Hollendorfer 6/1
7 7Dream Tree (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mike E. Smith 122 Bob Baffert 3/1
8 8Emboldened (KY) Joseph Talamo 120 Bob Baffert 4/1
9 9Show It N Moe It (CA) Rafael Bejarano 120 Gary Sherlock 5/1
10 10Moon Kitty (FL) Evin A. Roman 120 Jack Carava 20/1