Large field expected for Autumn Miss Stakes
ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf historically has had large fields, and on Saturday the race will have a maximum field of 14 starters, according to Santa Anita racing officials.
The candidates for the $100,000 race at a mile include the stakes winners Ms Bad Behavior, Pulpit Rider, Rayya, Streetwithnoname, Tesora, and Toinette, as well as Flammetta, Hey Negrita, K P Pergoliscious, Movie Moment, So Hi Society, Spring Lily, Streak of Luck, and West Palm Beach.
Toinette was supplemented on Wednesday for $2,000. Trained by Neil Drysdale, Toinette won the Grade 3 Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs in May and has not raced since finishing ninth in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks in July.
In this decade, the Autumn Miss Stakes has had at least 10 runners annually. Last year, Lull beat 12 rivals.
The list of candidates includes one shipper in Tesora, who is trained by Jonathan Thomas. Tesora won the Christiecat Stakes at six furlongs on turf at Belmont Park on Sept. 7 for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and TNIP Racing.
Four juvenile stakes at Los Al
Led by two Grade 1 races worth $300,000, Los Alamitos will run four stakes for 2-year-olds at its two-week winter meeting, which runs from Dec. 6-16.
The Starlet Stakes for fillies and the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity will be run at 1 1/16 miles on Dec. 8. They are the final Grade 1 races for 2-year-olds this year.
The final weekend of the eight-day meeting is highlighted by two $100,000 stakes for California-breds at a mile – the Soviet Problem Stakes on Dec. 15 and the King Glorious Stakes on Dec. 16.
