Super Corredora Looks to Bounce Back in Santa Ysabel

Super Corredora hopes to get her sophomore season back on track in the March 8 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita Park after finishing fourth in her seasonal debut. Last year's champion 2-year-old filly pressed the pace early in the Feb. 8 Las Virgenes Stakes going a mile, but weakened to finish fourth. Since then, she has put in a couple of solid 4-furlong works and capped those off with a sharp 5 furlongs March 1 in :59 3/5, which was the day's third-fastest time at the distance. The daughter of Gun Runner and front-running victress of last fall's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) is trained by John Sadler and campaigned by Spartan Equine Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds, Robert Gardiner, and Michael Olszewski. In the Santa Ysabel, Super Corredora will be the co-highweight carrying 124 pounds along with Leigh Ann Howard California Cup Oaks winner Cee Drew, a My Way Racing homebred by Cistron and trained by Dan Blacker. They are the only stakes winners in the seven-horse field. Contender My Love Caroline crossed the wire first by a nose in the 2025 California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association Stakes but was disqualified to fourth place. Super Corredora's regular rider Hector Berrios will be aboard and break from post 6. Several fillies in Santa Ysabel are coming off sharp maiden wins in their previous starts, led by Forced Entry. The daughter of Charlatan comes into the race off a 7 1/4-length romp in a Feb. 1 maiden special weight going a mile at Santa Anita. She is trained by Bob Baffert and owned by longtime partners Michael Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, who bought the filly for $375,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Jockey Juan Hernandez will be aboard and break from post 5. Trainer Michael McCarthy will saddle Piney Woods in the Santa Ysabel for owner Mike Rutherford, who saw this daughter of Cupid win her second start by 4 lengths in a Feb. 7 maiden special weight at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita. Ricardo Gonzalez will be in the irons. Baffert has a second entry and first-out winner named French Blue in the Santa Ysabel for Three Chimneys Farm. The homebred filly by the farm's marquee sire Gun Runner won her racing debut Jan. 8 going 6 furlongs at Santa Anita. She won by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:11.21 with Piney Woods 3 3/4 lengths back in third place. She has put in a couple of particularly sharp 5-furlong works since Feb. 22, when she worked in :59 and followed with a :59 3/5 effort March 1. Jockey Florent Geroux has the mount.