Enola Gray targets Beverly Lewis Stakes

Enola Gray is on schedule for a start in the $75,000 Beverly J. Lewis Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos on Sept. 10 after missing a start in late August at Del Mar because of illness.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said on Friday that Enola Gray showed a presence of mucus on Aug. 28 that kept from starting in the $100,000 Torrey Pines Stakes for 3-year-old fillies that day. Enola Gray was the 4-5 favorite on the morning line for the Torrey Pines Stakes. She figures to be a strong favorite in the Lewis Stakes, run at six furlongs.

“The blood was okay, but she had mucus,” D’Amato said. “We cleaned it up, and she’s been good ever since.”

Owned by breeder Nick Alexander, Enola Gray will have a workout Monday, D’Amato said.

The Lewis Stakes and the $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes for California-bred milers on Sept. 10 are the first two stakes of the three-week Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos, which runs from Sept. 8-25 on a Thursday-through-Sunday basis.

The richest race of the meeting is the $200,000 Los Alamitos Derby, a Grade 2 at 1 1/8 miles on Sept. 24. Accelerate, the winner of the Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 26, is a leading candidate for the Los Alamitos Derby.