Tenma begins her season with runaway win at Santa Anita

Tenma completed trainer Bob Baffert’s domination of Santa Anita’s weekend races for 3-year-olds by winning the $100,000, Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes for fillies with jockey Juan Hernandez on Sunday.

Tenma (who paid $2.40), whose four wins in five career starts include the Grade I Del Mar Debutante in September, won by 6 1/2 lengths in her first start of 2025 and Baffert-trained Cipriana finished second in a one-mile race whose already-small field was reduced to three by scratches.

On Saturday, Baffert-trained Citizen Bull, Rodriguez and Madaket Road ran 1-2-3 in the Grade III Robert B. Lewis Stakes.

Tenma earned 20 qualifying points for the Kentucky Oaks, putting her solidly in the field at this point for the May 2 race at Churchill Downs. Citizen Bull earned 20 points for the Kentucky Derby, extending the 2024 2-year-old champion’s lead in qualifying for the May 3 race.