10th-Santa Anita, $68,000, Msw, 3-18, 3yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:15.86, ft, 1 1/2 lengths.
PLEASANT (f, 3, Munnings–Fair Lady, by Medaglia d'Oro) jumped well at odds of 9-2 despite getting bumped leaving the gate in her debut run and forced the issue from an outside second. Traveling kindly while racing in hand, she turned up the heat on the far turn and braced for the challenge of heavily favored $1.2-million FTFMAR graduate and second-time starter Ruby Nell (Bolt d'Oro) leaving the quarter pole. Pleasant still had plenty left in the tank, however, and powered home to graduate by 1 1/2 lengths. The unraced Fair Lady, a daughter of the brilliant GISW and GI Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up Honest Lady (Seattle Slew), had a filly by Not This Time in 2022 and was not bred back. This is also the loaded female family of GISWs First Defence (Unbridled's Song), Empire Maker (Unbridled) and Chester House (Mr. Prospector). Broodmare of the Year Toussaud (El Gran Senor) is Pleasant's third dam. The Munnings over Medaglia d'Oro cross is also responsible for GSW Barkley. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $40,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O/B-Juddmonte Farms Inc (KY); T-Bob Baffert.
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