Santa Ynez

Bob and Beverly Lewis made it to the winner's circle for Monday's $150,000

Santa Ynez S. (G2) at Santa Anita, but it wasn't with Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Fillies (G1) winner Folklore (Tiznow). Instead, the heavily bet filly finished

behind her stablemate, DANCE DAILY (Five Star Day), who earned her first stakes victory

by the narrowest of margins over Talullah Lula (Old Trieste).

Folklore streaked to the early lead, clocking fractions of :23, :46 and 1:10

2/5, while being stalked by her entrymate, who loomed closely in second

for the majority of her trip. As the Lukas-trained duo made their run down the

stretch, Talullah Lulah made a game rally on the rail, battling with

Dance Daily on the far outside in deep stretch as Folklore began to weaken

between rivals, but the runner-up just missed by a nose at the wire.

Dance Daily completed seven furlongs

over the fast track in 1:23 1/5 under jockey Jon Court. Folklore finished

three parts of a length back in third.

"Folklore is already a Grade 1 winner and she'll go on to bigger and better

things so we're happy to get this one (Dance Daily) a stakes win," trainer D.

Wayne Lukas said. "I thought she'd make a little bit of noise in the race and

she did."

Dance Daily and Folklore returned $2.40, $2.10 and $2.10 at 1-5 while

Talullah Lula gave back $2.10 and $2.10 at 9-2 for the place. The $1 exacta paid

$2.70. Lake Como (Salt Lake), My Little Monkey (Old Trieste) and Trick's Pic

(Favorite Trick) rounded out the order of finish.

Bred in Kentucky by J C Davis Farm, Dance Daily is out of the unraced mare

Dance Alexa (Southern Halo) and counts herself as a half-sister to an unnamed

yearling filly by Luhuk. Dance Daily was purchased for $600,000 at the Barretts

March Sale of Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training and now shows a record of

9-3-0-1 with $171,292 in earnings.

"I don't want to make a decision now," said Lukas on the next race back for

the two fillies. "But I'll run one of them back in there (Las Virgenes S. [G1]

on February 11) for sure."

Lukas captured his fifth Santa Ynez. He's also won with Terlingua (1979), Gene's Lady (1984), Wising Up (1985) and Serena's Song (1995).