Baffert, Hollendorfer Have Multiple Starlet Possibilities

Hall of Fame trainers Bob Baffert and Jerry Hollendorfer may each have more than one starter in the Grade I, $300,000-guaranteed Starlet Saturday, Dec. 12 at Los Alamitos.

Scheduled at 1 1/16 miles, the Starlet will be run for the second time at Los Alamitos in 2015 after being known as the Hollywood Starlet (1981-2013) at the now-defunct Hollywood Park.

Baffert, who won the Starlet three times in Inglewood – most recently with Streaming in 2013 - may enter both Treasuring, runner-up in the Desi Arnaz Nov. 15 at Del Mar, as well as double Grade II winner Pretty N Cool.

A two-time winner of the Hollywood Starlet – Blind Luck (2009) and Killer Graces (2011) – Hollendorfer could be represented by Pike Place Dancer and Wine Country Debutante winner Stays in Vegas and Anoakia heroine Surfside Tiara.

Although she disappointed as the 3-5 favorite in the Arnaz, Pretty N Cool, who is owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, has won three of five, including stakes victories in the Sorrento Aug. 12 at Del Mar and the Matron Oct. 18 at Belmont Park.

Owned by a partnership that includes Jim Rome’s Jungle Racing LLC and KMN Racing LLC, Stays in Vegas would be returning to dirt in the Starlet after consecutive wins on turf. Before her score in the Pike Place Dancer at Golden Gate Nov. 1, the daughter of City Zip captured the Surfer Girl three weeks earlier at Santa Anita.

Trainer Peter Eurton has indicated Pacific Heat, who is undefeated in two races, would be supplemented to the Starlet for $7,500 – with an additional $7,500 required to start.

Owned by Sharon Alesia, Mike Burns and Ciaglia Racing LLC, the Unusual Heat filly out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Hotlantic graduated by 13 ½ lengths in her Los Alamitos debut Sept. 25, then won the Golden State Juvenile Fillies five weeks later at Del Mar by a bit more than five lengths.

Other Starlet possibles include the Phil D’Amato-trained pair of Coppa, a first out winner Nov. 1, and Street Fancy, who finished third in the Arnaz after breaking her maiden in her Oct. 18. debut.

The Dec. 12 program will also include the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California. The one-mile race attracted 12 nominees, including Family Code, Found Money, Glory Bound, Gosofar, Phantom Heat, Record Highs, Run Like the Boss, Swiss Minister, Tough It Out, Turn Your Eyes, Viviendo El Sueno and Los Alamitos graduate Xingontothebone.