From Santa Anita Publicity
ARCADIA, Calif. (Mar. 13, 2022) — She’s Devoted, a consistent five-year-old California-bred daughter of Grazen, returns to a grass sprint in this Saturday’s $100,000 Irish O’Brien Stakes at about 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf.
The Irish O’Brien is one in the Golden State Series for California-bred or sired fillies and mares four and older.
“She‘s doing well and she won going a mile, but I think she can get 6 ½,” trainer Richard Baltas said.
The five-year-old gray mare bred and owned by Slam Dunk Racing was second by a nose at 11-1 in her first two-turn race, going a mile on turf Feb. 12.
Newly-crowned George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award winner Joe Bravo, who was aboard her in her narrow overnight race loss last out, retains the mount in the Irish O’Brien.