Lobo rebuilding stable with stakes horses

Five months after he returned to California from his native Brazil, trainer Paulo Lobo is forming a stable that could be prominent in stakes in 2015.

Saturday at Los Alamitos, Lobo won an optional claimer over 1 1/16 miles with Baccelo, a Group 1 stakes winner in Brazil in 2013. Over the weekend, the stable grew with the arrivals of Alakazan Alakazan, Lady Zuzu, and Macro Access, Lobo said.

Alakazan Alakazan, previously trained by Graham Motion, won an allowance race at Kentucky Downs in September, and was scratched from the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup at Del Mar last month.

Lady Zuzu, previously trained by D. Wayne Lukas, was scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 31 after she kicked the starting gate moments before the start. Lady Zuzu was a maiden race winner at Keeneland in early October.

Macro Access won the Group 2 Premio Clasico Miguel Cane for 3-year-olds over a mile on dirt in Palermo, Argentina, in August.

Baccelo, 4, won for the first time in the United States on Saturday. He has won 3 of 13 starts in his career. Lobo said he hopes to run Baccelo in stakes at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting that begins on Friday.

“I have grass races on my mind,” he said. “I have high expectations with him.”

Lobo, 46, trained in Southern California in the early 2000s, a time when his stable included Farda Amiga, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2002. He later trained in New York and Brazil before returning to California during the summer.