Lost Bus won the $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes for older fillies and mares by a head over Finest City, and then survived a foul claim on Saturday at Santa Anita.
Ridden by Fernando Perez, Lost Bus ran seven furlongs in 1:21.78 and paid $131.20, $42.20 and $14.80 at 60-1 odds, making the 4-year-old filly the longest shot in the field.
Finest City returned $10.60 and $6.80. Tara's Tango was another neck back in third and paid $4.60 to show.
Corey Nakatani, aboard Finest City, lodged a claim of foul against Lost Bus and Perez, but the stewards made no changes to the order of finish.
"Corey was pushing me," Perez said. "We were bumping a little bit down the stretch, but not much to be honest. He just had to take a shot (by claiming foul) to see if he could get the disqualification."
The victory, worth $120,000, increased Lost Bus's career earnings to $256,018, with three wins in 11 starts. The filly earned her first career stakes win in the Grade 2 race. Lost Bus was claimed for $32,000 in November and is trained by Gary Sherlock.
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