Santa Anita
Santa Anita: Great Mills drops into allowance on Sunday
Jack Coady/Coady Photography Great Mills scores a three-quarter-length win in the $75,000 Champion Energy Services.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Great Mills, fourth in the BC Turf Sprint in November, will be heavily favored to win an optional claimer over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course in Sunday’s second race.
Trained by Steve Asmussen, Great Mills was entered for the Grade 3 Daytona Stakes on the hillside turf course on Dec. 29, but withdrawn when the race was transferred to a wet-fast main track.
“If it had been on a fast track, we might have tried it,” said Scott Blasi, Asmussen’s assistant. “I felt like I had him ready to run. He seems like he’s in a good rhythm.”
Owned by Millennium Farms, Great Mills has won 5 of 19 starts and $376,838. A 5-year-old horse by War Front, Great Mills is part of a field of five in Sunday’s second race.