Gamely Stakes guide: Odds, pace projection, preview, more

Going Global, who is 7-for-9 on U.S. soil, aims to make it 8-for-10 on Monday while adding a second-top level score to her ledger.

The Phil D’Amato-trained Going Global (8-5) is morning-line favorite for the Grade 1, $400,000 Gamely Stakes. Post time from Santa Anita is 9 p.m. EDT, with TVG showing the 1 1/8-mile turf event for fillies and mares.

Santa Anita also boasts two other Grade 1 races on its Memorial Day card. The $400,000 Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G1) at 1 1/4 miles on the dirt goes off at 5:47 p.m. EDT, while the $500,000 Shoemaker Mile Stakes is scheduled for 6:18 p.m. EDT over the lawn.

The Gamely finishes Monday’s 10-race card at Santa Anita. Its eight entrants are most among the three stakes races on tap.

Going Global exits a local victory April 9 in the Royal Heroine Stakes (G2). The 4-year-old Mehmas filly bested a field of four that day under jockey Umberto Rispoli by 1 3/4 lengths.

Jockey Flavien Prat will be up Monday on Going Global, while Rispoli moves over to Ocean Road (4-1) for trainer Brendan Walsh. Prat was aboard last August when Going Global won the Del Mar Oaks (G1), one of six victories she notched last year in eight starts.

D’Amato also trains Going to Vegas (3-1), the second choice on the morning line. She too is a Grade 1 winner, taking the Rodeo Drive Stakes last October at Santa Anita, and was runner-up last out March 26 in the local Santa Ana Stakes (G3).

Ocean Road ships to Southern California for Walsh off a Keeneland allowance win April 15. Mike Puype trains Canoodling (6-1), winner of Santa Anita’s Wilshire Stakes (G3) on May 1. Neige Blanche (6-1) also exits a local Grade 3 win, hers coming May 14 in the Santa Barbara Stakes.

Here is a look at the field for the 2022 Gamely Stakes (trainer and jockey in parentheses) with morning-line odds:

1. Going to Vegas (Phil D’Amato, Irad Ortiz Jr.), 3-1

2. Canoodling (Mike Puype, Juan Hernandez), 6-1

3. Ocean Road (Brendan Walsh, Umberto Rispoli), 4-1

4. Thrumps Dream (George Papaprodromou, Joe Bravo), 20-1

5. Eddie’s New Dream (Ben Cecil, Mario Gutierrez), 12-1

6. Going Global (Phil D’Amato, Flavien Prat), 8-5

7. Neige Blanche (Leonard Powell, Edwin Maldonado), 6-1

8. England’s Rose (John Shirreffs, Abel Cedillo), 15-1

TimeformUS’ pace projections show Eddie’s New Dream going out to the early lead under jockey Mario Gutierrez, followed by Canoodling. Favorite Going Global is projected to settle mid-pack.

Other Monday stakes

Here is a look at other graded stakes taking place Monday across the U.S. All post times are EDT.

4:22 p.m. – $200,000 Winning Colors Stakes (G3), 4-and-up fillies and mares, six furlongs, Churchill Downs, FS2

Sconsin (6-5) makes her first start since winning Churchill Downs’ Open Mind Stakes on Sept. 18 to close her 4-year-old season. Trainer Greg Foley will give a leg up to jockey Tyler Gaffalione on the 5-year-old Include mare, a Grade 2 winner who took last year’s Winning Colors. John Ortiz trains Novel Squall (5-2), who exits a Keeneland allowance win April 28. Li’l Tootsie (5-1) tries to make the grade after running sixth April 2 at Oaklawn Park in the Carousel Stakes.

5:47 p.m. – $400,000 Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G1), 3-and-up, 1 1/4 miles, Santa Anita, TVG

Royal Ship (6-5) steps up in class for trainer Richard Mandella after starting his 6-year-old season April 10 at Santa Anita by winning the John Shear Mile Stakes. Jockey Mike Smith gets the call on the Midshipman gelding, a Grade 2 winner who was runner-up last year in this event. Ed Moger Jr. trains Stilleto Boy (7-5), who prepped for the Hollywood Gold Cup on April 30 by winning the Californian Stakes (G2). Defunded (3-1) won a Santa Anita allowance race May 8 for trainer Sean McCarthy.

6:18 p.m. – $500,000 Shoemaker Mile Stakes (G1), 3-and-up, one mile (turf), Santa Anita, TVG

Smooth Like Strait (4-5) aims to take this Win and You're In qualifier for November’s Breeders’ Cup Mile for the second season in a row. Jockey Flavien Prat will be up on the 5-year-old son of Midnight Lute for trainer Michael McCarthy, who saddled him to a third-place finish April 15 at Keeneland in the Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes (G1). Phil D’Amato trains Count Again (5-2), a Grade 1 winner who finished sixth in the Maker’s Mile. Masteroffoxhounds (5-1), a Grade 2 victor, was runner-up April 30 at Santa Anita in the Charles Whittingham Stakes (G2).

8:35 p.m. – $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile Stakes (G3), 3-and-up, one mile, Lone Star Park, TVG

Shaaz (2-1) puts a 3-for-3 record on the line in his stakes debut Monday for trainer Sean McCarthy. Jockey Florent Geroux will pilot the 4-year-old Uncle Mo colt, whose last race was a Santa Anita allowance win April 2. Saffie Joseph Jr. trains Mish (7-2), whose three-race winning streak includes a May 7 score in a Gulfstream Park allowance race. Rated R Superstar (10-1), a multiple Grade 3 winner, looks to bounce back from a seventh-place showing April 23 in the Oaklawn Handicap (G2).