Harvest Moon, Scotish Star pointing to Zenyatta Stakes
The field for the Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes on Oct. 3 at Santa Anita may feature a filly who won the race in 2020 but has not raced since the spring and another who has struggled at Del Mar in her first two starts in the country.
Harvest Moon, trained by Simon Callaghan, won the Zenyatta Stakes at 1 1/16 miles last fall in advance of a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland last November. Harvest Moon was fourth and third in leading stakes for older fillies and mares at Santa Anita in March and April before she was given a rest.
Harvest Moon has worked steadily in recent weeks and will be ready for the Zenyatta, Callaghan said.
“She puts so much into her works,” Callaghan said.
Scotish Star, a Group 1 winner in Argentina last October, was second in an allowance race at six furlongs in her American debut July 29 at Del Mar and fourth by three lengths in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 20.
“I think she wants to go longer,” trainer Richard Mandella said.