Fighting Mad earned a career-high 102 Beyer winning the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes over a speed-friendly main track Sunday at Santa Anita. All three dirt routes were won by the pacesetter in peculiar fashion, including maiden-claiming gelding Mongolian Legend who romped by more than six lengths, and claiming filly She Cherie who won despite being hounded through a fast opening half-mile in her initial try around two turns.

Fighting Mad won the mile and a sixteenth Santa Maria by more than three lengths in 1:42.12; her Beyer was 13 points higher than her previous best. Hard Not to Love and Ce Ce finished two-three. Those three fillies and locally stabled Ollie’s Candy, who is scheduled for a Grade 1 at Belmont Park on June 13, could target the next major filly-mare dirt race in California. The Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch will be run Aug. 2 at Del Mar.