ARCADIA – Bouncing back from bad efforts to score stakes victories at Santa Anita on Sunday, two horses vaulted all the way into the Breeders’ Cup conversation.
But that conversation is likely to go quite differently for the handlers of Straight No Chaser, front-running winner of the $200,000, Grade II Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes with jockey John Velazquez, and Sugar Fish, come-from-behind winner of the $200,000, Grade II Zenyatta Stakes for fillies and mares with Tyler Baze.