ARCADIA, Calif. – On a quiet Santa Anita program without a Sunday stakes race, the focus is on an appealing maiden sprint for California-bred fillies midway through the card and two allowance races for older California-breds at the end. Stakes action picks up next week, including a pair of Grade 1s for older horses March 1 – the Santa Anita Handicap on dirt and Frank E. Kilroe Mile on turf, along with 3-year-old colts in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes and the Grade 2 Buena Vista for fillies and mares on the turf. Three-year-old fillies run March 2 in the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes. In the meantime, Sunday’s low-profile card includes entry-level allowance races for statebreds as co-features. Fillies and mares led by Wishes to Riches go 6 1/2 furlongs in race 9; older horses, including sharp surface-switcher Touchdown Brown, race one mile on turf in race 10. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. From a gambling perspective, a maiden filly making her second start might be the most intriguing runner on the card. Race 6 is a six-furlong turf sprint for 3-year-old maiden fillies bred in California, and the field did not come up particularly strong. But a video replay of Butterfly Beach suggests otherwise. Her sixth-place debut was better than it looks. Neil Drysdale trains Butterfly Beach, a Dads Caps filly ignored at 21-1 odds first out. The price was right. After all, Butterfly Beach’s workouts were only average and Drysdale-trained maidens typically race into condition rather than fire first out. Butterfly Beach lost all chance when she broke last from the rail in the turf sprint. She was hard held by jockey Antonio Fresu, trailed into the turn, weaved through traffic into and through the stretch, finished with run, and galloped out super. Butterfly Beach finished sixth by 5 1/4 lengths. Since then, Butterfly Beach has worked well in company, and will add Lasix. As for Drysdale, he has already won two races this meet with second-start maidens. A clean trip may be all Butterfly Beach needs Sunday. Her chief rivals are Lava Lucy, fourth on dirt both starts, and debut filly Elsa Dutton, the first runner produced by multiple stakes winner Just Grazed Me. Race 9 likely favorite Wishes to Riches wired a starter allowance last out, earning a 78 Beyer Speed Figure that exceeds par (77) for the California-bred allowance sprint she runs in Sunday. Phil D’Amato bred and trains Wishes to Riches, whose rider is apprentice Serafin Carmona. Rivals for Wishes to Riches include route-to-sprint Stop Digging, comebacker Eltonsingsanother, and restricted claiming winner Sharp Ride. Race 10 is tricky, because potential favorite Touchdown Brown is less reliable on turf than dirt. Touchdown Brown was claimed for $25,000 last out, a dirt mile he won by five lengths. Librado Barocio is the gelding’s new trainer, but Touchdown Brown did not hit the board in three previous turf starts. He will be ridden again by Fresu. If the surface switch compromises Touchdown Brown, the race could be won by last-out runner-up Investalot, last-out third Brazenly, or deep closer Fly the Sky. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.