Fantastic Style's end-of-year goal will be BC Filly and Mare Sprint

Fantastic Style and Living the Life, the first two finishers of Saturday’s $200,750 Great Lady M. Stakes for female sprinters at Los Alamitos, will be pointed for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland in late October.

Should they get there, they will arrive via different paths.

On Sunday, trainer Bob Baffert said Fantastic Style will be considered for the $100,000 Rancho Bernardo Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs Aug. 16 at Del Mar, even though he was disappointed to learn the purse has been cut by $50,000 from last year. Del Mar reduced the purses of some stakes this year because of a purse overpayment in summer 2014.

Fantastic Style was the only 3-year-old of eight runners in the Great Lady M. She closed from third, chasing the speed duel of Amaranth and Sunday Rules, to lead in the stretch. Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Fantastic Style won the race at 6 1/2 furlongs by 3 1/4 lengths.

Baffert said he will emphasize one-turn races for Fantastic Style, who is owned by Kaleem Shah.

Trainer Gary Mandella plans to send Living the Life to Pennsylvania for a repeat start in the $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs Sept. 7. Living The Life won the race in 2014.

Mike Smith rode Living the Life in the Great Lady M., and Mandella hopes the Hall of Fame rider can go to Pennsylvania on Sept. 7, even though the race is the same day as the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity.

“That could be problematic,” Mandella said.

Mandella said the Presque Isle race has appeal because the race is run on a synthetic track and for the purse.

“It’s the right thing to do for her,” he said of the 5-yeaer-old mare.

Sunday Rules was beaten for the first time in her sixth start in the Great Lady M. Stakes, fading to finish third, 6 3/4 lengths behind Fantastic Style.

On Sunday morning, trainer Phil D’Amato said he would consider sending Sunday Rules out of state for her next start but has not settled on specifics.

“I don’t mind shipping her,” he said. “She’s bomb-proof in the paddock.”

D’Amato rued Sunday Rules’s luck, having fought for the lead with Amaranth, who faded to finish last.

“The Baffert horse beat us fair and square,” he said. “I think if you take that one horse, she’d have run much better.”

** Secret Circle, unraced since winning the $2 million Golden Shaheen for sprinters in Dubai on March 28, has resumed training with Bob Baffert’s stable at Los Alamitos.

Baffert said Secret Circle will be prepared for an autumn campaign geared toward the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland on Oct. 31. A 6-year-old, Secret Circle has yet to have a workout since the horse resumed training.

Owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, Secret Circle has won 8 of 16 starts and earned $3,670,790. His most prestigious win in the U.S. is the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita.