Light Won Up Leads A Competitive Field For The Grade III Senorita Stakes Saturday At Santa Anita

After winning the Sweet Life Stakes for 3-year-old fillies sprinting on Santa Anita’s hillside turf course in February, Light Won Up will now look to add a graded-stakes victory over the unique layout in a competitive edition of the Grade III, $100,000 Senorita Stakes Saturday at Santa Anita.

Trained by Doug O’Neill, Light Won Up scored comfortably by 2 ¾ lengths in the Sweet Life on Feb. 7. Following that promising effort, Light Won Up was sent to Keeneland for a first graded stakes try in the GIII Limestone going 5 ½ furlongs at Keeneland. Sent off at 10-1, the daughter of City of Light ran evenly and finished fourth.

Light Won Up was purchased by owners Purple Rein Racing and Mark D. Davis for $265,000 at last year’s OBS March sale of 2-year-olds in training. She’ll again have Fresu aboard in the Senorita.

Dreaming of Alys, winner of last year’s Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar going one mile, will make her 3-year-old debut for trainer Phil D’Amato. The daughter of Upstart hasn’t started since October when finishing fifth in the GIII Surfer Girl going one mile on grass at Santa Anita, which followed her Del Mar stakes win.

Dreaming of Alys will be ridden by Tiago Pereira for the first time. She is owned by Agave Racing Stable, Medallion Racing and Evan Trommer.