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Back at her preferred distance, Phil D’Amato’s Going Global was nothing short of brilliant in defending her title in Saturday’s $200,000 Goldikova Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita by 1 ½ lengths.
“Senor Buscador started about six lengths back and got to the target a little faster and caught up by the three-eighths.
A 4-year-old filly and one of two Phil D’Amato entrants, Going Global, the defending Goldikova champ, is a perfect two for two at one mile over the Santa Anita turf and is five for six over the Arcadia lawn.
The 4-year-old Twirling Candy bay nearly gave trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci his first graded win in his first attempt with a pacesetting neck loss here to Love And Thunder last out on September 24 in the nine-furlong Grade 3 Athenia.
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s homebred Pizza Bianca will make her anticipated return following an international endeavor at Royal Ascot in Saturday’s 28th running of the Grade 2, $200,000 Sands Point for 3-year-old fillies going nine furlongs on the inner turf at Belmont at the Big A.