Bowies Hero top contender among probables for Zuma Beach

The stakes winner Bowies Hero will be favored to win his second consecutive stakes in Monday’s $100,000 Zuma Beach Stakes for 2-year-olds at a mile on turf at Santa Anita. On the same program, the stakes winners Con Te Partiro and Happy Mesa are expected to run in the $100,000 Surfer Girl Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at a mile on turf.

The races could produce runners for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and Juvenile Fillies Turf here on Nov. 4.

Bowies Hero won the Del Mar Juvenile Turf on Sept. 3. Big Score and Billy Big, who were second and third in that race, are part of the projected field for the Zuma Beach.

Con Te Partiro won the Bolton Landing Stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf at Saratoga on Aug. 17. Happy Mesa won the Selima Stakes at Laurel on Sept. 10. The Surfer Girl Stakes will be the first start in California for both runners.