This week at Golden Gate Fields
Grade 2, $200,000 Buena Vista Stakes at Santa Anita; Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds — both Saturday
Life Is a Trip, who recorded front-running victories in both starts with nearly identical times, heads a field of six 3-year-olds in Saturday’s fifth race.
Hollendorfer also has Boldly True, who won a 6-furlong maiden race by a neck Jan. 10, in Saturday’s field. …
Conspicuous by his absence in Monday’s Lost in the Fog Stakes won by Outside Nashville was Star Student, who captured the Oakland Stakes and a stakes-quality allowance during the fall meeting.
Golden Gate Fields-based Stormy Lucy, who has a win and two seconds (losing by a neck and a nose) in her past three trips to Southern California, is there again for the Buena Vista Stakes.
The 1-mile grass race for fillies and mares also drew the Hollendorfer-trained Lutine Belle, Glory and Minks Aprise.
The 11/16-mile prep for the Louisiana and Kentucky derbies also features the 3-year-old debut of Airoforce, who has three wins and a loss by a neck in four starts. …