Undefeated Maxfield ships in as 124 Pound highweight in Saturday’s Grade I, $400,000 Santa Anita Handicap
At 0h06, on March 6, 2021 • By SANTA ANITA
Undefeated in five starts, Goldolphin’s homebred Maxfield, who has been installed as the 124 pound highweight, will ship in from his New Orleans base to head Saturday’s Grade I, $400,000 Santa Anita Handicap. The Big ‘Cap has attracted a field of eight older horses and will be run for the 84th time at the North American classic distance of a mile and one quarter.
Trained by Brendan Walsh, Maxfield, a 4-year-old colt by Street Sense, out of the Bernardini mare Velvety, rallied from far back to win the Grade III Mineshaft Stakes at a mile and one sixteenth by 3 ¼ lengths at Fair Grounds under Florent Geroux, who will be back aboard Saturday.
A Grade I winner in his second start at age two in October 2019, Maxfield has three graded victories to his credit and with the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Classic looming in November at Del Mar, “Max” will be getting his first taste of Southern California in the Big ‘Cap.
