ARCADIA, Calif. – A winter sprint stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita, the Grade 2 San Vicente looks the same every year – small fields, short prices, Bob Baffert-trained winners. The cycle repeats Saturday when Grade 1-placed Buetane returns as the San Vicente favorite. The race drew five runners, which is average for the San Vicente the past decade. Baffert-trained favorites have won five of the last six; he has won the stakes a record 14 times. The San Vicente goes as race 5 on a 10-race card that also features the Santa Ynez for 3-year-old fillies going seven furlongs. Four months after he was crushed by Ted Noffey finishing second in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga, Baffert-trained Buetane enters as the seven-furlong San Vicente as the horse to beat first start back. Buetane, a debut winner in August at Del Mar, is set to fire under Juan Hernandez. “He’s been training well, he’s coming back around,” Baffert said. “His last couple works have been pretty strong. He’s doing well, and [seven furlongs] is a good fit for him.” :: Santa Anita Classic Meet! Get DRF Past Performances, Clocker Reports, and more. Amr Zedan owns Buetane, a $1.15 million yearling sired by Tiz the Law. Will he run long? “It’s too early to tell, one race at a time,” Baffert said. “I’m just lucky the race went.” Most in the San Vicente field are mere maiden winners, including Baffert-trained debut winner Greenwich Village and Mark Glatt-trained So Happy. Trainer Doug O’Neill entered Acknowledgemeplz and last-out California-bred allowance winner Thirsty Rebel. Greenwich Village won his first start last month at Los Alamitos. “I didn’t think he’d win first out; he was still a little heavy,” Baffert said. “He’s getting there slowly; he’s going to need a few runs. He carries a lot of weight, still, but he’s extremely fast.” Hector Berrios rides Greenwich Village, a Quality Road colt produced by speedy Australian sprinter Houtzen. The O’Neill pair is led by Acknowledgemeplz, a maiden sprint winner over Blacksmith two starts back at Santa Anita and a distant fourth in the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity around two turns. Acknowledgemeplz, who earned a 93 Beyer Speed Figure for that maiden win, benefits by a return to a sprint and addition of blinkers. So Happy is the main threat to Buetane, based on a debut upset Nov. 22 at Del Mar. So Happy surprised bettors at 38-1, and he also surprised his trainer. “We liked the horse,” Glatt said. “We didn’t think he would run that professionally and that well first time out. He’s a horse, in the morning, that kind of looks around and does some of the young-horse stuff.” So Happy ran like a seasoned pro first out. He pressed the pace and won by a half-length with an 83 Beyer, which is the highest last-start figure in the San Vicente field. Glatt expects So Happy to continue to improve. “He’s done very well since his debut,” Glatt said. Although sired by Runhappy, the trainer said So Happy “has a route-horse look to him, he’s got some length and height, he’s not a heavy horse. Body-type wise, I think he can stretch maybe to a flat mile.” Mike Smith was aboard So Happy first out and has the mount again Saturday. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.