A Flashy-looking score in the Surfer Girl

Riley Racing Stables' Flashy Ways rolled past the leaders turning into the

stretch and kicked away in Monday's $100,000

Surfer

Girl Stakes at Santa Anita, propelling herself into the picture for the

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

"I think she's eligible (for the Breeders' Cup) -- I have to check," trainer

Richard Baltas said.

According to the eligibility check on the Breeders' Cup website, however,

Flashy Ways was not nominated. She'd have to be made eligible for a fee of

$100,000.

Dispatched at odds of 7-1, Flashy Ways was coming off a $50,000 maiden

claiming romp in her debut at Del Mar. That 5 1/4-length triumph was

accomplished versus lesser in a 5 1/2-furlong dash on Polytrack. Flashy Ways was

trying a route, and turf, on the class hike, and she handled her assignment with

aplomb.

With Joe Talamo back aboard, the daughter of Catienus raced in midpack in a

strung-out field. The front-running Upbeat Mood zipped through fractions of :22

4/5 and :46 2/5, but her nearest pursuers, Bares Tripper and Truly Marie, drew

alongside her at the six-furlong mark in 1:10 2/5.

Flashy Ways was likewise gaining ground on the outside and soon took dead aim

on the top three. Swinging into the stretch, she shot past them and opened up by

daylight. Flashy Ways crossed the wire 2 1/2 lengths to the good of the

late-running Wishing Gate, posting a final time of 1:34 2/5 for the firm-turf

mile and furnishing mutuels of $16.40, $6.20 and $5.20.

"We just had a perfect trip," Talamo said. "Three of them went out there in a

speed duel and we just sat behind. Then turning for home I turned her out and

had a lot of horse. She's bred up and down for the turf on her dam's side.

Richard (Baltas) has done a great job with her. She was fit and ready to go

today. Again, I just had a perfect trip with a good horse underneath."

"I had a really good trip," Wishing Gate's rider Garrett Gomez said, "but I

had to wait a little bit at the quarter-pole. Joe (Talamo) moved out and cut me

a little close, but after I turned for home I had all the time in the world to

go get the leader. That other filly just ran really good today. My filly is

coming around; she's just learning what it's about. These are young babies and

it's all a learning process for them. Hopefully she'll learn from it and move

forward."

Wishing Gate was best of the rest by 1 1/2 lengths from Somethingabouther.

Bares Tripper checked in fourth, trailed by Truly Marie, Upbeat Mood and the

eased Egyptian Femme.

Flashy Ways, a bargain $3,500 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic October yearling, has

now bankrolled $81,600 from her two-for-two mark.

Bred by Chad Reed in Kentucky, Flashy Ways was produced by the Carson City

mare Golden Kitty. The chestnut filly counts as her third dam That's My Hon,

ancestress of champion turf horse Kitten's Joy, multiple Grade 1-winning

millionaire Precious Kitten, champion juvenile filly Dreaming of Anna, multiple

Grade 2 heroes Lewis Michael and Justenuffhumor and Grade 1 victor Down the

Aisle.

"This is what she wants to do, (go) long on the turf," Baltas said.

"She's really bred for the turf," the trainer added, mentioning her relatives

Precious Kitten and Kitten's Joy, "so I knew she wanted to go long on the

grass."

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