Bob Baffert’s Fighting Mad wins easily in Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita

ARCADIA — Fighting Mad, a 10-1 longshot, and jockey Abel Cedillo played catch us if you can Sunday at Santa Anita, and the other four horses were no match for the 4-year-old New Year’s Day filly in the $200,000 Grade II Santa Maria Stakes.
It’s not often, at least locally, that bettors get a Bob Baffert trainee at double-digit odds, but two of the better fillies on the grounds, Ce Ce and Hard Not to Love, were among the five-horse lineup and, on paper, appeared to be standouts.