Hotshot Anna at her peak for Satin and Lace Stakes
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Hotshot Anna raced like a hotshot last time out, turning in the race of her life to become a graded stakes winner. She will attempt to duplicate that performance Monday night at Presque Isle Downs in the $100,000 Satin and Lace Stakes, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares that has drawn a full field of 12.
Hotshot Anna, owned and trained by Hugh Robertson, stepped up for a 5 3/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Chicago Handicap on June 23 on Arlington Park’s synthetic main track. She earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 100 in the seven-furlong race, her top career number and the best last-out figure in this field.
Hotshot Anna is looking for her third straight win in the Satin and Lace, having won an optional-claiming sprint at Canterbury Park in May. She drew post 11 and will be ridden by Antonio Gallardo.
Hotshot Anna usually stalks the pace, and she will probably be chasing Puntsville in the Satin and Lace. Puntsville drew post 12 under Carlos Marquez Jr.
Puntsville has not been worse than second in her last seven starts, and has won four of her last five outings. Trained by Michele Boyce, she won the Issac Murphy Handicap at Arlington against statebreds and then traveled to Canterbury to wire the field in the Hoist Her Flag Stakes.
Defending Satin and Lace winner Natural Wonder is one of several entrants who have shown an affinity for Presque Isle’s track. Crazy Sweet, stepping into stakes company for the first time, has won five straight races at the track, from the claiming to the allowance level. Nineteenth Street has won back-to-back optional-claiming events, including one at Presque Isle earlier this month.
Code Warrior scored a repeat victory in the Grade 3 Hendrie Stakes on Woodbine’s synthetic main track two starts back, but then finished ninth in the Grade 2 Royal North Stakes on that turf course.
Jessica Krupnick is coming off a win in the Dashing Beauty Stakes at Delaware Park. Multiple graded stakes-placed Stormy Victoria won a stakes on the Gulfstream turf earlier this year, while Just Be Kind won the Minaret Stakes at Tampa Bay.