Providencia Top Three Rematch in Senorita
By Christie DeBernardis
The top three finishers from the Apr. 6 GIII Providencia S. going nine panels over the Santa Anita lawn return to Arcadia Saturday for the one-mile GIII Senorita S. Providencia victress Hostess (GB) (Iffraj {GB}) was making her first Stateside appearance last time after winning one of her three prior starts in England for previous trainer Hugo Palmer.
The bay is trained by Simon Callaghan, who also conditions Providencia runner-up Maxim Rate (Exchange Rate). Graduating at first asking at Santa Anita Feb. 16, the gray came up just a nose short of her stablemate last time out.
Just a head behind her in third was the Richard Baltas-trained Lady Prancealot (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}). Runner-up in a pair of stakes last fall, the bay captured a course-and-distance optional claimer prior to the Providencia.