With a neck and a head separating the top three finishers at the end of the 1 1/2 miles on turf, it was the Dan Blacker-trained Queen ofthe Temple who prevailed by a neck under Joe Bravo in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Barbara Stakes at Santa Anita.
Queen Ofthe Temple heads a wide open field of older fillies and mares going a marathon 1 1/2 miles over the Santa Anita turf in Saturday’s $100,000 Astra Stakes.