ARCADIA — After being overmatched in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies last fall, Meaning showed improvement and enjoyed some racing luck to turn the tables on Super Corredora and Explora in the $100,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday. Flavien Prat rode 3-year-old Meaning ($7.80 ) for the first time. Trainer Michael McCarthy won his third race of the afternoon and his second at the stakes level, a half-hour after 5-year-old Yellow Card ($8.40) and jockey Emisael Jaramillo went from last to first in the $100,000 Clockers’ Corner turf sprint. Meaning benefited from a front-end battle between Super Corredora and Explora, who’d run 1-2 in the Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar. Explora, the 4-5 favorite Saturday, held on to finish 1-1/2 lengths back in second. Super Corredora tried to finish last in the field of four 3-year-old fillies in a 1-mile steppingstone to the April 4 Santa Anita Oaks. Meaning had finished fourth at the Breeders’ Cup in her second start. “She’s a stronger filly, more mature. She’s put on a lot of weight over the last couple of months,” McCarthy said. “It was a big ask going from a maiden (win) at Los Alamitos to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. (She’s had) a little time after the Juvenile Fillies to get her feet back underneath her and prepare for something like this. “The way she did it was pretty impressive, against a Breeders’ Cup winner and runnerup.” Meaning, a daughter of Gun Runner, is owned by Bridlewood Farm and Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, both part of the group that has 2025 Preakness winner Journalism with McCarthy. Related Articles Jazzy Davidson, Kennedy Smith lead USC women to win at Illinois Winter Olympics: USA takes gold in team skate Kawhi Leonard scores 41 to help Clippers rout slumping Timberwolves UCLA women’s basketball holds off Michigan Luke Kennard goes from LeBron James record breaker, to Lakers’ X-Factor in debut ...read more read less