ARCADIA, Calif. – Six in a row for Man O Rose? The gelding puts a five-race win streak on the line Sunday at Santa Anita, where he is favored in the $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes. The Cal-bred turf sprint is about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hill, a course Man O Rose has not raced over since autumn. “It doesn’t matter,” trainer Jeff Mullins said. He is right. It does not matter. Man O Rose has won eight races on dirt, four on turf, and enters the Sensational Star having won five straight stakes on both surfaces. Barring the unforeseen, Man O Rose figures to extend his streak and match The Chosen Vron, whose 2023 Sensational Star was his sixth straight stakes victory. :: Santa Anita Classic Meet! Get DRF Past Performances, Clocker Reports, and more. Only five are entered in the Sensational Star, race 3. Wagering value is minimal. The field includes late-running hillside stakes winner On the Whim, stakes-winning pacepresser Drop Um, front-runner Flyover, and late-running dirt stakes winner Speedy Wilson. Bruce Zietz bred and owns Man O Rose, a 6-year-old gelding whose $632,965 in career earnings is the highest among progeny of California stallion Stanford. Man O Rose is 5 for 5 the past six months and climbed to the top of the Cal-bred division following the retirements of multiple stakes winners The Chosen Vron and Kings River Knight. Regular rider Edwin Maldonado regains the mount on Man O Rose. Emisael Jaramillo rode Man O Rose to victory against open company in the $100,000 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 15, while Maldonado rode Pavlovian to victory in the Sunland Derby the same day. Man O Rose is fast and versatile. He won last out rallying from fourth. In the Sensational Star, he and Maldonado can set or press the pace outside Flyover and get first run. Man O Rose’s only previous start on the hill was a victory last fall in the California Flag Handicap. On the Whim employs the opposite style. Dean Pederson trains On the Whim, a late-runner cutting back to a sprint after a creditable third-place comeback in an entry-level allowance at one mile on turf. A pace-dependent closer whose rider is Tiago Pereira, On the Whim seeks his second stakes victory on the hill. The 6-year-old gelding by Acclamation won the California Flag Handicap on the Santa Anita hill in autumn 2024. On the Whim, 4 for 13, will be rolling late. Drop Um finished second to Man O Rose in Cal-bred dirt stakes last fall and winter, then switched to turf and finished a creditable third last out in a second-level allowance. Tyler Baze rides Drop Um for trainer Felex Rondan. Speedy Wilson finished third in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes on Dec. 28, then misfired and finished last of four in the California Cup Sprint won by Man O Rose. Speedy Wilson finished fourth in his only previous start on turf. The Sensational Star is named after the Bill Spawr-trained Cal-bred who won the 1989 Triple Bend Stakes at Hollywood Park, as well as the 1990 Bing Crosby and Pat O’Brien at Del Mar. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.