Gamely comes up strong with eight stakes winners

ARCADIA, Calif. – Eight stakes winners from two states as well as Brazil and France are among the projected field of 10 fillies and mares for Monday’s $300,000 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita.

The Grade 1 Gamely, run at 1 1/8 miles on turf, will have two shippers from the East Coast in Danza Cavallo and Hard Not to Like.

Danza Cavallo joined trainer Chad Brown’s stable last fall after winning a minor stakes in Vichy, France, last July. Danza Cavallo was second in the Grade 3 Long Island Handicap in her American debut last November and won an allowance race on turf at Keeneland on April 17.

Hard Not to Like, trained by Christophe Clement, won the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland in April 2014 and was third in the same race April 11, her most recent start.

The California-based runners include Blingismything, who won the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes on April 26; Generosidade, a Group 1 winner in Brazil now trained at Los Alamitos by Paulo Lobo; Moulin de Mougin, who won the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes at Del Mar last August; and Queen of The Sand, the winner of the Grade 3 Santa Barbara Handicap at Santa Anita on April 18.