Santa Anita: Watch This Cat one to beat in GIII Las Cienegas

TSV Staff Selections —-

SANTA ANITA

Race 3) 6½ Furlongs. (Turf) Las Cienegas S. Grade III. Purse $100,000
DOWNHILL TURF FOR FILLIES AND MARES FOUR YEARS OLD AND UPWARD
$1 Exacta / $1 Trifecta / $2 Rolling Double /$1 Rolling Pick Three (Races 3-4-5)
Post Time: 4:29/ 3:29/ 2:29/( 1:29

Watch This Cat (5), Baltas/Nakatani; Eskendereya 5-year-old makes her Graded Stakes debut and couldn’t be more ready having won two straight coming down the hill, leading at every call.Jock change to Nakatani shouldn’t be an issue.

Paquita Coqueta (2), Mandella/Prat; Chilean mare finished a neck back third in her lone try down the hill, but today comes in fresh off a gate-to-wire score over the Del Mar turf earlier last month; worktab suggests she’s ready to fire again.

Lajatico (3), O’Neill/Van Dyke; English-bred filly also enters off a game Del Mar score; today makes her third start in country and that angle along with a last out winner are 17 percent plays for trainer Doug O’Neill.

Selections: 5, 2, 3