Kalypso Heads Baffert Stampede in Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes
At 0h04, on March 6, 2021 • By SANTA ANITA
Bob Baffert’s well accomplished Kalypso heads a field of five sophomore fillies going a mile and one sixteenth in Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita. Baffert will also be represented by Beautiful Gift as well as Heels Up in a race that Baffert has won a record five times.
With 50 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points to be awarded to the winner, the Santa Ynez takes on added significance as America’s biggest race for 3-year-old fillies looms on April 30 at Churchill Downs.
Third, beaten 1 ¾ lengths by Kalypso in the Las Virgenes Stakes here on Feb. 6, trainer Michael McCarthy’s Moraz will likely go as the second choice in the Santa Ysabel, which will be her fourth career start.
A recent mile and one sixteenth maiden winner at Golden Gate Fields, A Real Hero will be a longshot with Flavien Prat aboard.
Owned by David Bernsen, LLC and Rockingham Ranch, Kalyspo, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Brody’s Cause, broke her maiden going six furlongs four starts back in the ungraded Anoakia Stakes on Oct. 18.
