Elsa travels West, rebounds in Del Mar's Jimmy Durante

In the Grade 3, $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, the companion feature to Del Mar's Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) Saturday, 11-1 longshot Elsa provided jockey Joe Bravo with his second straight success in the 1 1/16-miles grass contest, sweeping to the lead from the outside for a convincing 2 1/4-length triumph. Bravo won the race a year ago aboard Daddy Is a Legend.

"No sprint,  no soft – just what we wanted," Bravo said. "(Trainer) Michael (Stidham) said we’ve got to go somewhere where they’ve got some fast turf, so you know that had to be Southern California. She ran good and she was in the right spot at the finish."

Second by a head was Courteous, a 25-1 outsider under  Talamo, with 2-1 favored Pivottina a fast-closing third, 1 1/2 lengths in front of Velvet Queen in the field of a dozen fillies. Withdrawn was Posh Holly.

Elsa, a daughter of Animal Kingdom owned and bred in Kentucky by Godolphin, L.L.C., was making her West Coast debut after three races in the East. She was seventh in her last start in Laurel Park's Selima Stakes in September.

Her winning time over firm turf in the Jimmy Durante was 1:35.68. She returned $24.80, $11.20 and $7 while earning $60,000 with her second win.

"The firm track definitely made a big difference. She didn’t like the soft ground," Stidham said. "They went three-quarters in 16 (at Laurel), she broke sharp and then just started retreating backwards and that’s not her. We couldn’t wait to get her out here."

Runner-up Courteous paid $22.40 and $12.20, while Pivottina returned $3.20 to show.