With three runners in the California Cup Oaks and another a half-hour later in the California Cup Derby, plus a debuting maiden in the day’s final race, trainer Carla Gaines’s mid-sized stable has a chance for outsized success Saturday at Santa Anita. It’s in the $200,000 Oaks where Gaines takes her best shot, with a trio of fillies all capable of winning the one-mile grass race, including one who had a horrendous trip last time out at Del Mar. :: Get Brad Free’s Betting Strategies for Saturday’s card at Santa Anita Closing Remarks finished last of 10 last time out in the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante, but the race is a throw-out. Jockey Umberto Rispoli appropriately used his inside draw to save ground behind the leaders for the first six furlongs in the one-mile turf race, but room never developed in the stretch run. “He went for a hole, it closed up, and that was that,” Gaines said Thursday morning. “She probably wasn’t going to beat Chad Brown’s horse,” Gaines said, referring to the victorious Fluffy Socks, “but I think she could have been right there.” The race already has proven productive. Quattroelle, a troubled third in the Jimmy Durante, came back to win Blue Norther on Dec. 31 at Santa Anita, with Durante runner-up Javanica second. In addition, Closing Remarks is dropping from open company to a race restricted to California-breds. Closing Remarks beat California-bred maidens in her debut last summer at Del Mar. Rispoli, who has been aboard for two of her three starts, rides back. Gaines also sends out Sensible Cat and Westward Breeze, both of whom exit the Soviet Problem for statebreds at Los Alamitos, where they had contrasting trips. Sensible Cat rallied to win the one-mile dirt race in a style mirroring the way she defeated maidens on the grass at Del Mar. Mike Smith, aboard for the maiden win, has the call. Westward Breeze got off to a dreadful start and never really recovered, finishing ninth of 10. She won sprinting on turf against maidens at Santa Anita in her debut and likely will appreciate a return to grass, but the distance is still a question mark, Gaines admitted. “We tried to find out at Los Alamitos, but she was completely eliminated,” Gaines said. Westward Breeze must overcome the outside post in a field of 10. Others who figure to get support include Governor Goteven and Dylans Wild Cat, second and third behind Sensible Cat in the Soviet Problem, and I’m So Anna, who was hampered by a wide draw when finishing fourth in the Soviet Problem and won her lone grass try in the Pike Plance Dancer at Golden Gate in October. The Cal Cup Oaks is race 6 on the 10-race card. California Cup Derby The $200,000 Cal Cup Derby at 1 1/16 miles on the main track immediately follows the Cal Cup Oaks, and interest will be high to see if anyone can follow in the footsteps of the race’s 2014 winner, California Chrome. The Chosen Vron will be favored off a powerful debut victory Dec. 27 in which he got a Beyer Speed Figure of 86, vastly superior to anything his eight rivals have recorded. As a son of the Danzig stallion Vronsky, a middle distance certainly seems within his grasp, and he benefits by being the fastest horse early in the race as well as having an inside draw. But The Chosen Vron will be coming back just 20 days after his debut, while stretching out and facing winners. :: Enhance your handicapping with DRF’s Santa Anita Clocker Report John Velazquez was in town for his debut and got the call from trainer Eric Kruljac. Velazquez is in Florida now, but agent Ron Anderson made sure to keep it in the family, securing the mount Saturday for his other client, Joel Rosario. Gaines sends out Mischievous Path, who also will be trying two turns and winners – in addition to dirt – for the first time after defeating maidens sprinting in his second start on the Tapeta surface at Golden Gate. He’s had three local works since being shipped south. Gaines said she was happy with the progress Mischievous Path made in his works after adjusting to the surface. “His last work,” she said, referring to a five-furlong drill in 1:02.60 last Saturday, “he galloped out a great three-quarters.” Big Fish returns to the main track for the first time since finishing third in a maiden sprint at Del Mar in July. He’s raced once a month since, all in grass races, the last four times in stakes against open company, including a fourth-place finish in the Eddie Logan on Dec. 27. Good With People figures to be a pace presence, and Play Chicken will try to stalk and pounce, as he did when winning the King Glorious at Los Alamitos last time out.