Sarach shows the way in Honeymoon

Her lead had dwindled after six furlongs in 1:12 3/5, with several foes

bunching up behind her as she came up under serious pressure from Macha, but

Sarach responded the urgings of Garcia and kept finding more after turning for

home, surging clear once again in midstretch. She was in complete control to the

wire, stopping the teletimer in 1:48 3/5 on the firm course.

"The main thing was to break sharp," Garcia said. "Every time she runs, she

likes to be right there. Nobody went to the lead today and it was really

comfortable for her to take it. She showed what she can do.

"If they would have gone faster, she would have been right there, but like I

said there was no pace and I just took advantage from there."

The winner returned payouts of $18, $5.80 and $3.60.

Scarlet Strike waited too long to make a serious impact but easily finished

second-best, a half-length better than a game Macha in third at 11-1. Becky Lou,

Charlie Em, Somethingabouther, Wittgenstein and Kyriaki completed the order of

finish. Blingismything, Scooter Bird and Sweet Red Cat were all scratched.

After breaking her maiden in her fourth career start in early January, Sarach

stepped up to knock off entry-level allowance rivals in February at Santa Anita.

She wasn't a serious factor in her next two appearances versus stakes rivals,

finishing fifth in both the March 9 China Doll and April 6 Providencia, but

turned things around on Saturday.

Sarach's ledger now reads 8-3-0-0, $168,742.

A Kentucky-bred daughter of Arch, Sarach is out of the stakes-placed Eximius.

The Atticus mare is out of the multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire Gorgeous,

and Sarach's third maternal dam is 1990 Broodmare of the Year Kamar.

This is the

female family of European Horse of the Year and U.S. champion Fantastic Light;

champion Golden Attraction; English highweight Music Show; French highweight

Desert Lord; Canadian champion Key to the Moon; Grade 1 winners Cape Town,

Flashing, Seaside Attraction and Swift Temper; and last year's Travers dead-heat

winner Alpha.

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