From Santa Anita Publicity
ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 4, 2023) — Multiple graded-stakes winner Closing Remarks is the lone California-bred entered in Saturday’s $300,000 Grade II Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.
The consistent 5-year-old mare is by Vronsky, out of the Unusual Heat mare Orange Cove, and is a Harris Farms homebred. Closing Remarks rallied for a solid 1 ¾ length tally going a mile and one eighth on turf in the Grade II John C. Mabee Stakes on Sept. 9 and prevailed by a neck in the Grade II Yellow Ribbon at Del Mar Aug. 12.
Trained by Carla Gaines and favored in both of her Del Mar wins, Closing Remarks has proven effective rallying from far back, mid-pack and as she demonstrated in the Yellow Ribbon, when she lays close to a legitimate early pace. A three-time graded stakes winner, Closing Remarks has three wins from 14 tries over the Santa Anita lawn and is enjoying her best year ever, winning three out of her seven starts and banking $462,500.
With an overall race record of 22-6-5-4, Closing Remarks has career earnings of $861,320 and would become the latest Cal-bred millionaire with a win on Saturday.