Miss Stormy D returns in Bayakoa Stakes

Miss Stormy D, unraced since winning an allowance race at Santa Anita in February, is among six projected starters in Sunday’s Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles at Los Alamitos.

Owned by Keith Brackpool and trained by Carla Gaines, Miss Stormy D was supplemented to the $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes for $2,000, according to racing secretary Bob Moreno.

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Other expected runners are Blue Diva, Donut Girl, Message, Proud Emma, and Stellar Sound.

Message and Proud Emma finished in a dead heat for first in the restricted Tranquility Lake Stakes at Del Mar in August.

◗ Jockey Ruben Fuentes is now represented by agent Tora Yamaguchi, an arrangement that began this week.

Fuentes, 23, has won 34 races this year, the most recent of which was the $200,000 Downs at Albuquerque Handicap on Restrainedvengence in September. Fuentes was scheduled to resume riding Friday at Los Alamitos for the first time since early October. He is booked on four horses Saturday.

Fuentes served a suspension for routine riding infractions in recent months and took a break to visit family in New Mexico, Yamaguchi said Thursday.