10-1 Sheza Smoke shows up favorites in Senorita

10-1 Sheza Smoke shows up

favorites in Senorita

Ignored at odds of 10-1 off a fifth in the March 8 China Doll, Sheza Smoke

Show parlayed a beautiful trip into an upset of the principals in Saturday's

Grade 3, $101,250

Senorita

Stakes at Santa Anita. Jockey Joe Talamo masterminded a ground-saving

passage before tipping out in the stretch, and the Peter Eurton filly surged

home to spark a $23.20 win payout.

In the opening stages, 7-2 second choice Clenor was pulled up when jockey

Tyler Baze felt that something was amiss. Meanwhile, Disregarded served as the

controlling speed through splits of :23 2/5, :47 and 1:11 on the firm turf.

Sheza Smoke Show was settled along the fence in midpack early, but advanced

smoothly without having to leave the rail. When Disregarded tried to deliver the

coup de grace in the stretch, Sheza Smoke Show then came out to offer her

challenge and swept past to complete the grassy mile in 1:35 1/5.

Famous Alice, the lukewarm 3-1 favorite, closed for second, 1 1/4 lengths

adrift of the winner. Morning Fix caught the tiring Disregarded for third. Miss

Machiavelli, Sushi Empire, Burning Arch, Lemon de Oro and Rovenna rounded out

the order under the wire.

Clenor was apparently in good shape back at the Doug O'Neill barn, according

to a post on the stable

Facebook page.

"Clenor is fine," Team O'Neill reported. "Tyler thought she didn't feel fluid

as usual, and as a precaution pulled her up. She jogged off fine and the vet is

looking her over now."

Campaigned by G. Biegler, J. Border, S. Eberwine, R. Exline, R. Exline and G.

Zubok, Sheza Smoke Show has now earned $138,438 from her 6-3-0-1 line. The

three-year-old daughter of Wilko broke her maiden in her third try, taking an

about 6 1/2-furlong dash on the downhill turf January 4, and promptly captured

an entry-level allowance at this course and one-mile distance January 31. That

earned her a tilt at stakes company in the China Doll, where she was beaten a

couple of lengths by Diversy Harbor and Nashoba's Gold. Unraced in the interim,

she entered the Senorita off a 3 1/2-month holiday.

Sheza Smoke Show was bred by Butch Rice in Kentucky. A $25,000 Keeneland

January yearling, she brought $100,000 as an OBS March two-year-old. Her dam is

the stakes-winning A. P Jet mare Avery Hall, and her second dam, Royal Form, was

also a stakes victress. Sheza Smoke Show hails from the family of multiple Grade

2 scorer Dance Floor, whose four Grade 1 placings include the 1992 Kentucky

Derby and Travers.

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