ARCADIA, Calif. – While the top 3-year-old filly in California skips the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita, six others will take a shot at winning their first graded stakes. Tenma returns next month in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks to seek her fourth graded victory against whoever runs well Sunday in the Santa Ysabel. Odds-on favorites have won six of the last eight editions of the dirt route, but it is no easy chore this year to identify the favorite. The Santa Ysabel kicks off the pick six, which has a carryover of $86,735. Supa Speed is the most accomplished entrant, but her five starts were all on turf. Maysam figures off her maiden win two back, but she finished next-to-last two weeks ago as prohibitive favorite in a stakes at Sunland Park. As for Cipriani, her recent runner-up finish in a Grade 2 needs an asterisk because the race had only three starters. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. At 1 1/16 miles on dirt, the Santa Ysabel attracted a modest field. Three others enter off disappointing races – California-bred stakes winner Hey Jessie, Just as Fancy, and Howin. The sharpest entrant is Supa Speed, whose trainer, John Sadler, is experimenting this weekend with surface-switch fillies in graded stakes. Dirt-to-turf Alpha Bella was the program favorite Saturday in the Grade 2 Buena Vista, turf-to-dirt Supa Speed will test her main-track ability Sunday in the Santa Ysabel. Based on her record on turf and solid works on dirt, Supa Speed might be the horse to beat. Supa Speed won her career debut at five furlongs on turf, placed in two subsequent turf stakes, and scored a 1:35.08 victory last out in an allowance turf mile. She is by multi-surface stallion Justify, though her American Pharoah dam made all seven starts on turf. The smooth action displayed by Supa Speed in dirt workouts suggests she handles the surface. The uncertainty is her reaction to kickback. Supa Speed rallies from behind, therefore must take dirt at some point. It will be up jockey Flavien Prat to get her comfortable and negotiate a trip. If she handles unfamiliar conditions, Supa Speed can win. Maysam won her debut by six lengths on Jan. 24, after which trainer Bob Baffert shipped her to the Sunland Park Oaks on Feb. 16. It did not go well for the 1-10 favorite. “She had a disastrous [trip],” Baffert said. “She acted up in the gate, and then she didn’t break well, and after that she lost all interest.” The good news is Maysam came out of the race well, worked an easy three furlongs Feb. 26, and wheels back in 14 days for the Santa Ysabel. Juan Hernandez rides Maysam, who could give Baffert his fifth straight Santa Ysabel victory and 10th overall. Baffert also entered Cipriani and Howin. Cipriani won her debut last fall by more than eight lengths, and finished second in a three-horse field last out. “She’s still very green, she’s not matured completely yet,” Baffert said. Mike Smith rides Cipriani. The Santa Ysabel is race 6 Sunday on a challenging 11-race card. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.