Tempted winner Oxy Lady likely for Starlet

Oxy Lady, the five-length winner of the Grade 3 Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct at odds of 36-1, is being pointed to the Grade 1, $300,000 Starlet Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos on Dec. 8, trainer Jack Sisterson said Friday.

Sisterson, the former assistant to trainer Doug O’Neill, said he prefers the Grade 1 status and the extra week of the Starlet compared to the Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle, scheduled for next Saturday at Aqueduct.

“It gives us an extra week to get over the big race at Aqueduct,” said Sisterson, who left O’Neill’s employ earlier this year to take a private training job for Calumet Farm, the owner of Oxy Lady.

Oxy Lady earned a 94 Beyer Speed Figure for her big Tempted win, her second victory in four starts.

The Starlet is run at 1 1/16 miles, compared to 1 1/8 miles in the Demoiselle.

On Friday at Keeneland, Oxy Lady worked five furlongs in 1:00.80 in company with an older colt, Sisterson said.

“It was a very good work, all in hand,” Sisterson said. “She showed us she came out of the race in very good, if not better, shape than she went into it.”

Declan Cannon, who rode Oxy Lady for the first time in the Tempted, worked Oxy Lady on Friday and is scheduled to ride her in the Starlet.

Others pointing to the Starlet are Vibrance, Chasing Yesterday, Itsjustanillusion, and potentially Mother Mother.