Comebacking United squares off with sharp recent winner Masteroffoxhounds
At 0h05, on March 19, 2021 • By SANTA ANITA
Richard Mandella’s classy multiple stakes winning United, idle since early November, will square off with Richard Baltas’ sharp recent winner Masteroffoxhounds, as they head a field of five older horses going a mile and one half on turf in Saturday’s Grade III, $100,000 San Luis Rey Stakes at Santa Anita.
A winner of four out of nine Santa Anita turf starts, United has been idle since running a disappointing eighth in the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 7 at Keeneland–a race in which he finished second, beaten a head at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, 2019. A 6-year-old gelding by Giant’s Causeway, United enjoyed a terrific year in 2020, winning four out of his six starts, all in graded stakes, and finishing a close second in another, the Grade II Del Mar Handicap three starts back on Aug. 22.
Owned by LNJ Foxwoods, United will be ridden by Flavien Prat, who’s been aboard for his last 11 starts, winning five of them. With two second place finishes in three tries at 1 ½ miles on turf, United is easily the leading money earner in the field with $1,453,549 from an overall mark of 17-7-4-1.
