Great Lady M Stakes

Sometimes a prohibitive 3-5 favorite doesn't run his or her race, but sometimes one runs just as hoped and adds a cherry on top. Last-out GI Beholder Mile Stakes winner and Pamela C. Ziebarth homebred Sweet Azteca (f, 4, Sharp Azteca--So Sweetitiz, by Grand Slam) not only made it three in a row with a facile win in Saturday's GII Great Lady M Stakes at Los Alamitos, but also set a new track record at Los Al for the distance, getting the 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:14.33. At the Great...

The eight-day Los Angeles County Fair meet at Los Alamitos, which runs from June 22 through July 7, will include three stakes races. Leading the trio is the $200,000 GII Great Lady M S., which will be run July 6. The 6 1/2-furlong race is for fillies and mares and was won a year ago by Eda (Munnings). The $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby will be run June 29 and the $100,000 Bertrando S. for 3-year-olds and up bred or sired in California will be run June 22. Racing will be...

Last year's GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint winner and Eclipse champion Gamine (Into Mischief) looms large in Monday's GII Great Lady M S. at Los Alamitos. The Bob Baffert-trained 'TDN Rising Star' has been perfect in two tries this year--she bested stablemate Qahira (Cairo Prince) by five lengths in Santa Anita's GIII Las Flores S. Apr. 4, and was a facile winner of the GI Derby City Distaff at Churchill May 1 ahead of three next-out stakes winners. The $1.8-million Fasig-Tipton Midlantic topper figures to be extremely tough to beat...