La Canada Stakes 2020: Entries & Odds at Santa Anita

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Santa Anita Park Press Release | OTB Writer
Updated: January 09, 2020

A pair of recent graded stakes winners that were bred in California, trainer Peter Miller's Spiced Perfection and Andrew Lerner's Queen Bee to You, head a field of eight older fillies and mares in the Grade III, $200,000 La Canada Stakes, to be contested at a mile and one sixteenth over the Santa Anita Park main track on Saturday, January 11.

By far the most accomplished runner in the race with earnings of $1.2 million, Spiced Perfection comes off a 2 ¼ length win going a one turn mile at Aqueduct in the Grade III Go For Wand Handicap on Dec. 7.

Queen Bee to You ran the best race of her career in winning the Grade III Bayakoa Stakes by 3 ½ lengths over a track listed as "good" at Los Alamitos on Dec. 8 in what was her first graded stakes victory.

2020 La Canada Stakes Odds & Entries

Race 8 at Santa Anita on Saturday, January 11 - Post 7:07 PM

Entry Horse ML Odds Jockey Trainer
1 Der Lu 4-1 Drayden Van Dyke
120 Lbs
Bob Baffert
2 Zusha 15-1 Tiago Pereira
120 Lbs
Gary Mandella
3 Queen Bee to You 3-1 Ruben Fuentes
122 Lbs
Andrew Lerner
4 Message 4-1 Mike Smith
120 Lbs
Bob Baffert
5 Kaydetre 30-1 Brice Blanc
120 Lbs
David Randall
6 Horologist 4-1 Joe Bravo
122 Lbs
Richard Baltas
7 Spiced Perfection 5-2 Joel Rosario
122 Lbs
Peter Miller
8 Starr of Quality 15-1 Geovanni Franco
120 Lbs
William Spawr

SPICED PERFECTION

A stirring 4 ½ length winner going seven furlongs versus statebreds in the Betty Grable Stakes at Del Mar Nov. 17, this 6-year-California-bred mare by Old Topper, out of Silk Queen by Touch Gold stretched out to 1 1/16 miles over a wet track listed as "good" at Los Alamitos Dec. 8 and rallied for an emphatic 3 ½ length win under Ruben Fuentes, who rides back on Saturday.

Conditioned by a young trainer on the ascendency here in Southern California, Queen Bee to You is a "now" horse that should be extremely tough in her 33rd career start. With earnings of $538,770, she has an overall mark of 32-7-11-5.

Owner: Christopher St. Hilaire & Adam Vali | Trainer: Andrew Lerner

QUEEN BEE TO YOU

A two-time Grade I winner, this 5-year-old California-bred daughter of Smiling Tiger, out of Perfect Feat, by Pleasantly Perfect, led gate to wire, winning the Grade III Go For Wand by 2 ¼ lengths on Dec. 7 and will likely stalk the early pace in the La Canada when ridden for the first time by Joel Rosario.

A stakes winner at four different tracks dating back to her 2-year-old year, Spiced Perfection will be trying a mile and one sixteenth for only the second time in her career as she finished a close second versus statebreds in the Melair Stakes 12 races back here on June 3, 2018. She is 20-9-5-2 overall with earnings of $1,214,405.

Owner: Pantofel Stable, Wachtel Stable & Peter Deutsch | Trainer: Peter Miller

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