Vibrance has final work for Starlet Stakes

Vibrance, third-place finisher in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies last time out, will seek her first Grade 1 victory on Saturday at Los Alamitos in the Starlet Stakes, in which her rivals will include Chasing Yesterday, the half-sister to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

Vibrance had her final work for the Starlet on Sunday at Santa Anita, when she went five furlongs in 1:01.60.

“Fantastic,” trainer Michael McCarthy said of the work. “Really pleased with how she’s doing.”

Vibrance has won once in four starts. Prior to the Breeders’ Cup, she was second in the Grade 1 Chandelier at Santa Anita behind Bellafina.

Flavien Prat will ride Vibrance in the Starlet, McCarthy said. Prat rode favored Bellafina in the Breeders’ Cup, but Bellafina is bypassing the Starlet.