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ARCADIA, Calif. (March 7, 2013)—Grade I stakes winner Teddy’s Promise, who is in search of her third consecutive victory, heads a field of eight older fillies and mares engaged to run 6 ½ furlongs in Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Las Flores Stakes.

An impressive three length winner of the Grade II Santa Monica Stakes going seven furlongs on a wet fast main track Jan. 26, the 5-year-old California-bred mare was equally as impressive in winning the $92,000 Kalookan Queen Stakes at 6 ½ furlongs on Dec. 29.

ARCADIA, Calif. (March 6, 2013)—It’s Bob Baffert vs. Doug O’Neill as top Derby prospects Flashback and Goldencents head a field of eight 3-year-olds set to contest Saturday’s Grade II, $300,000 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, final major steppingstone to the Grade I Santa Anita Derby on April 6.

The O’Neill-trained Goldencents comes off a sensational win in the Grade III Sham Stakes going one mile on Jan. 5 and his three victories also include a gate to wire score in the Grade III Delta Jackpot going 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 17. His only defeat in four starts was a second place finish to eventual Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Shanghai Bobby in the Grade I Champagne, a one-turn mile at Belmont Park on Oct. 6.

Lightly raced Flashback, an emphatic 6 ¼ length winner of the Grade II Robert B. Lewis Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Feb. 2, will be making only his third career start for Baffert but the grey son of Tapit has brilliant speed and a seemingly limitless future.

The complete field for Saturday’s Grade II San Felipe, from the rail out is as follows:

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Owned by world famous downhill skier Bode Miller and Jill Baffert, he is without question the “other Baffert” in this context. Purchased last May for a bargain $55,000 at a 2-year-old in training sale, this colt by Any Given Saturday broke his maiden for an $80,000 claiming tag first out at Del Mar on Aug. 23. He then won a minor stakes at Fairplex Park going the two-turn distance of seven furlongs and showed good speed before tiring to finish fourth in the Grade I FrontRunner going 1 1/16 miles on Sept. 29.

ARCADIA, Calif. (March 3, 2013)—With a heart-pounding late surge, Candy Waltz and Rafael Bejarano got up to win Sunday’s $30,000 Big Bear Purse at Santa Anita by a half length, getting six furlongs in 1:09.95.

Next to last early, Candy Waltz, the 2-1 favorite in the eight-horse Big Bear, a starter allowance affair for 3-year-olds and up, loomed ominously approaching the eighth pole, but was still three lengths behind Field Report and Agapito Delgadillo.

“I knew there was a lot of speed in the race and didn’t want to rush my horse,” said Bejarano.