Legacy gets back on dirt for Bayakoa

Since mid-April, the 4-year-old filly Legacy has run in six consecutive stakes with mixed results.

She won the Cypress Stakes at Los Alamitos in July and was second in the Las Madrinas Stakes there in September. In between those races, she finished sixth in the Tranquility Lake Stakes on Polytrack at Del Mar in August and was most recently eighth in the Grade 2 Goldikova Stakes on turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

The string of results will lead Legacy back to the friendly main track at Los Alamitos for the $200,000 Bayakoa Stakes on Saturday. The Grade 2 Bayakoa is run over 1 1/16 miles for fillies and mares.

“She doesn’t want grass and she doesn’t want synthetic,” trainer John Sadler said.

Owned by breeders John Jain, Frank Sinatra, and Larry Opas, Legacy has won 3 of 15 starts and earned $166,925. She is part of a projected field of six in the Bayakoa, which is likely to include Oscar Party, Tiz Midnight, Valiant Emilia, Warren’s Veneda, and Yahilwa.

Tiz Midnight was sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita on Oct. 31 and is likely to be favored in the Bayakoa.

Daddy D T’s fever subsides

The Sadler-trained Daddy D T, third in the BC Juvenile Turf on Oct. 31, was scratched from the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes at Del Mar last Saturday after spiking a temperature of 102 degrees.

Sadler said on Wednesday that the temperature has returned to normal levels and that Daddy D T will be pointed for turf stakes early in the Santa Anita meeting. Sadler had hoped to start Guilty, a recent import from England, in the DeMille, but the colt sustained an ankle injury in the days before the race and will be sidelined until 2015.

Both Daddy D T and Guilty are owned by Hronis Racing.