Generous Portion Stakes 2023 Preview | Crazy Hot Leads Field Of 7 California-Bred Juvenile Fillies

Seven California-bred fillies, all of them 2-year-olds and all of them winners, will match up on Monday’s Labor Day card at Del Mar in the featured $125,000 Generous Portion Stakes.

It will go as Race 10 on an 11-race program. First post for the holiday card is 1:30 p.m.

The six-furlong dash is headed by Brown or Thabit’s Crazy Hot, a bay Goldencents offspring who is stakes-placed twice already, most recently finishing third in the CTBA Stakes at Del Mar on August 6.

She races out of the barn of trainer Jeff Bonde, who is known to have a nice touch with young horses. She’ll also be ridden by old pro Mike Smith as they break from the rail.

Among her rivals are stablemate Fly a Fantasy, who races for the partnership of Harris Farms, Stanton or Wedge, et al.

She won smartly going short (four and a half furlongs) in her debut back in April at Santa Anita, then finished fifth in the CTBA in her only other outing. Old pro Kent Desormeaux will handle her.

Here’s the full field for the stakes in post position order with riders:

1. Crazy Hot
2. Bach or Weiner’s Blevys Tiger (Juan Hernandez)
3. Haru Racing’s Unified A.P. (Jose Valdivia, Jr.)
4. Reddam Racing’s Putt for Dough (Mario Gutierrez)
5. Buchanan or Manskar’s Talent for Gold (Giovanni Franco)
6. Ciaglia Racing, SAF Racing, et al’s Prancingthruparis (Antonio Fresu)
7. Fly a Fantasy

This will be the 31st running of the race, one of 39 events in the Golden State Series that unfolds over the course of the year at all the major racetracks in California worth a total of $4.85 million. Eight of those races are run during the summer at Del Mar.