The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 3 at Santa Anita ended before it truly began for the graded stakes winner Chatalas. “She got totally eliminated at the start, which compromised her chances tremendously,” trainer Mark Glatt recalled Thursday. “She’d never been in a situation where she had to take dirt” in her face. “She didn’t take too kindly to that.” From Glatt’s perspective, Chatalas has rebounded in the right manner in advance of her final start of 2023 in Saturday’s Grade 2 Starlet Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos. The $200,000 Starlet is run at 1 1/16 miles, a distance that should not be an issue for Chatalas. By Gun Runner, Chatalas won the Grade 2 Chandelier Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Oct. 7 at Santa Anita in her first start around two turns. She set the pace and extended her lead in the final furlong to win by 1 1/2 lengths. Chatalas, who races for the partnership of Dan Agnew, Rancho Temescal Thoroughbred Partners, and William Chatalas, is the most accomplished runner in a field of six in the Starlet. Chatalas has won 2 of 4 starts and earned $207,200. The only other stakes winner in the field is the improving Nothing Like You, who won the Dezi Arnaz Stakes at seven furlongs by a nose on Nov. 18 at Del Mar in her stakes debut and fifth start. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Nothing Like You, who drew the inside in the Starlet, is one of two fillies in the field trained by Bob Baffert, who has won the race the last six years. Baffert also starts the promising maiden race winner Grazia, who drew the outside post. The other runners are the maiden Pacific Rose, who was supplemented to the race for $7,500 on Wednesday; and Great Forty Eight and Flynn’s Chance, who were first and third in a maiden race at a mile at Del Mar in their last starts on Nov. 12. Chatalas, who typically races near the front, never reached that position in the BC Juvenile Fillies, eventually finishing ninth of 12. In the Starlet, Chatalas starts from post 5, which should allow jockey Antonio Fresu to assess the early pace. “There looks like there is some speed in the race,” Glatt said. “It’s a short field and we have a good post to get an early position. He can see what everyone else is doing and find a spot.” Grazia is one of the quicker fillies in the field. She was near the front throughout a maiden race at six furlongs in her debut Nov. 12, drawing away to win by 3 1/4 lengths at 2-5. “We’ll see how she handles it,” Baffert said. “Jumping her to a mile and a sixteenth is a bigger step, but I thought the way the race was coming up, I think she deserves a chance to run.” Baffert said he was left impressed by Nothing Like You’s rally to reach the front in the nick of time in the Arnaz Stakes. Nothing Like You won a maiden race at a mile in her preceding start on Oct. 14 at Santa Anita, the first time she was tried in a two-turn race. “She’s a big, tall filly,” Baffert said. “I was worried about her last race. It might have been short for her. She’s getting better and better.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.