Enaya Alrabb to miss Santa Anita Oaks with injury

ARCADIA, Calif. – Enaya Alrabb, second in two graded stakes since early December, will miss Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks because of an undisclosed injury.

“She’ll probably be out for six months,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Wednesday.

O’Neill wouldn’t disclose specifics of Enaya Alrabb’s injury but said she would not require surgery.

“It’s very disappointing, but she needs time,” he said.

He said the injury was diagnosed Tuesday morning “after going over her.”

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Owned by Enaya Racing, Enaya Alrabb, by Uncle Mo, has one win in four starts, having taken a maiden race here last October. She was second by a head to Chasing Yesterday in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos on Dec. 8, and second by three-quarters of a length to Bellafina in the Grade 2 Las Virgenes Stakes on Feb. 9 in her lone start this year.

Enaya Alrabb was the projected second choice in the $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks for 3-year-old fillies behind California division leader Bellafina, a five-time graded stakes winner. Trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday that he plans to supplement Chasing Yesterday, who won the Sunland Oaks in New Mexico on March 23 in her 3-year-old debut.

The maiden-race winners Flor de La Mar, trained by Baffert, and Stirred, trained by Michael McCarthy, are other projected runners for the Santa Anita Oaks, which is run at 1 1/16 miles.