35th La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita Park

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Fourteen horses will line up the field of the 35th La Brea Stakes on Saturday, December 29. This is the largest in the history of Santa Anita’s Grade I 7-furlong race. Competition will be tough for the 3-year-old fillies running in this event.

Sindy With an S, one of two graded stakes winners among the lineup, will carry high weight of 121 pounds and heads the field in earnings with a career bankroll of $315,959. Trained by Mike Mitchell for Dream Stable, Sindy With an S has posted a 4-2-1 record in eight starts that include a 3 1/4 length victory in the Grade III Safely Kept Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Laurel Racecourse in Maryland last October.

The field’s other graded stakes winner is the Oak West Farm filly Ashley’s Kitty trained by Ted West. Ashley’s Kitty with earnings of $190,958 has won 4 of 9 races including the Hollywood Park’s Grade III Railbird Stakes last May.

Dearest Trickski won six of her last seven starts and Santa Anita’s La Brea will be her first stakes competition.

Dawn After Dawn won a Hollywood Park allowance sprint in her first West Coast start on November 30 after facing top competition in the East. She also ran fourth to Rags to Riches in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks last May.

The largest number of runners to compete in a La Brea to date was 12 when Affluent won in 2001. This year, the runners for the $250,000 La Brea Stakes lines up as follows:

Pinata ridden by jockey Martin Pedroza carries 117 lbs.

Cathrine’s Hope ridden by jockey Jon Court, 119 lbs.

Ashley’s Kitty ridden by jockey Tyler Baze, 119 lbs.

Silky Smooth ridden by jockey Aaron Gryder, 114 lbs.

Dawn After Dawn ridden by jockey Garrett Gomez, 117 lbs.

Shriek ridden by jockey Richard Migliore, 115 lbs.

Glorified ridden by jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., 115 lbs.

Frisk Her ridden by jockey Corey Nakatani, 119 lbs.

Dearest Trickski ridden by jockey Mike Smith; 117 lbs.

Sindy With an S ridden by jockey Michael Baze, 121 lbs.

Look Deep ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza, 117 lbs.

Macadamia ridden by jockey Julien Leparoux, 115 lbs.

Swiss Diva ridden by jockey Agapito Delgadillo, 117 lbs.

Unspoken Word ridden by jockey Rafael Bejarano, 117 lbs.

The La Brea Stakes is the ninth race in Santa Anita’s Saturday race card. It is supported by two other stakes races: the $125,000 California Breeders Champion Stakes for 2-year-old state-bred fillies at seven furlongs (seventh race) and the $75,000 Eddie Logan Stakes for 2-year-olds at a mile on turf (eighth race).

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