Living the Life won’t have it easy in Camilla Urso

Five stakes winners, including one making her first start since last year’s Breeders’ Cup, hook up in Saturday’s $50,000 Camilla Urso at Golden Gate Fields.

Living the Life is the headliner in the six-furlong race, having run 10th in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 1 after winning the Grade 2 Presque Isles Downs Masters last year. The Masters was run on Tapeta, the surface on which the Camilla Urso will be run.

Living the Life, based with Gary Mandella at Santa Anita, will be running against Northern California’s top sprinters.

Marks Mine is a multiple stakes winner in sprints at Golden Gate, where she has five wins, three seconds, and a third in 10 starts.

Look Quickly is also a multiple stakes winner. Her fourth-place finish behind three of today’s rivals in her last start marked her first off-the-board performance.

Hollywood Miss and Tabled With Gold are each coming off a victory here, while Fast and Foxy has a win and two seconds in her last three starts.

Rounding out the field is the stakes winner Ramona’s Wildcat.

Living the Life has 14 works since her Breeders’ Cup start and was twice ready to run in Santa Anita stakes only to be stopped when allergies kicked up, said Mandella.

“She’s had some allergy issues, but she was fit enough to run,” Mandella said. “We’ve changed her bedding and diet and gotten those issues out of the way.”

CAMILLA URSO (RACE 7)

KEY CONTENDERS

Living the Life (Last 3 Beyers: 73-90-85)

◗ Mandella said she is training well and should run well, but he admits, “This is a starting point.”

◗ He’s also concerned that she might prefer more than six furlongs, although she won at the distance in her U.S. debut at Del Mar.

◗ She breaks from the rail.

Look Quickly (Last 3 Beyers: 76-78-90)

◗ She was between horses while wide when she missed the board in her last start.

◗ Her stalking style should be effective here.

◗ She has five wins and seven exacta finishes in eight starts here.

Marks Mine (Last 3 Beyers 82-72-90)

◗ She’s looking for her first win since last year’s Camilla Urso, but her last two sprints here have been solid, and she has a sizzling 58.60-second five-furlong bullet work since her last start.

◗ She may have lost a step, but she’s still plenty quick and has always been a game runner.