Saturday’s Santa Anita card will give us a stronger sense of the local 2-year-olds when the American Pharoah is contested in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile division and the Grade 2 $200,000 Chandelier is co-featured in the BC Juvenile Fillies ranks. The two-turn tests will separate those from the Del Mar summer stand, where the top races for these runners were around a single bend. With Del Mar Debutante winner Tamara training up to the Breeders' Cup, the door is open for another filly to make her candidacy Saturday.

For more coverage of the American Pharoah for the colts, see Jon White’s blog.

Let’s meet the contenders for the 1-1/16 miles Chandelier Stakes, which goes as Race 3 on the card:

#1-Chatalas (Antonio Fresu / Mark Glatt)
Daughter of Gun Runner exits a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante and is well-drawn for her first try around two turns. Beat Chandelier rival Gate to Paradise in the debut for each. Expect her near the early pace.

#2-Scalable (Mike Smith / Todd Pletcher)
Saratoga debut fifth-place finisher makes an unexpected road trip and class rise while eligible for easier races at home. $200,000 Speightstown filly has sprint hints in her pedigree on both sides. Pletcher ventured here to win this race in 2014 with Angela Renee, who was far more accomplished at that stage. Smith is a four-time winner of the Chandelier.

#3-Pacific Rose (Ramon Vazquez / Doug O’Neill)
Two off-the-board finishes in Del Mar maiden races precede this stakes rise, one on turf and one on dirt. $125,000 purchase in March is by Not This Time and not expected to be part of the early pace. Vazquez rode last year’s Chandelier winner And Tell Me Nolies

#4-Pink Whitney (Tiago Pereira / Doug O’Neill)
Unplaced in all three starts to date, once on dirt at Ellis and twice on turf at Del Mar. Cross-entered Friday in a Santa Anita maiden race. Daughter of Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile-winning speedster Liam’s Map is devoid of early foot.

#5-Autumn Chill (Hector Berrios / Keith Desormeaux)
Successfully stretched out to a mile at Del Mar in her third maiden start and is the Chandelier’s only entrant with two-turn success on her form. Constitution filly has improved in each start as distances elongated.

#6-Gate to Paradise (Kent Desormeaux / John Shirreffs)
Maiden exits a third-place run in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante, splitting the result between Chandelier rivals Laurent and Chatalas. Lured $950,000 in March at the Ocala sale, and this daughter of Arrogate is one expected for a fast return on investment. Jockey Desormeaux won this race all the way back in 1998 with Excellent Meeting.

#7-Dua (Juan Hernandez / Bob Baffert)
Another high-dollar Arrogate filly in the lineup, this one brought $400,000 as a yearling and was a winner at first asking July 22 at Del Mar. Didn’t advance her cause in the Grade 3 Sorrento thereafter, finishing at distant third and was not wheeled back in the Del Mar Debutante. Bullet 6-furlong workout Oct. 2 to try and simulate the stretch-out to two turns. Baffert has won the Chandelier a record 12 times.

#8-Laurent (Edwin Maldonado / Peter Eurton)
Blinkers go on the Del Mar Debutante runner-up, who has shown no early speed whatsoever in her first two starts. Her pedigree, top and bottom, is highlighted by outstanding one-turn mile types, so it will be interesting to see if her one-turn Del Mar form translates to two. Sire Practical Move did get this year’s local Santa Anita Derby winner Practical Move.

#9-Motet (Edgar Payeras / Ruben Gomez)
Well-beaten in both starts, the Grade 3 Sorrento and Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante, the connections keep trying to bite at the big apple in stakes company. $20,000 filly by Mo Town was 51-1 and 143-1 in prior starts and likely the biggest price Saturday.

#10-Next Right Thing (Emily Ellingwood / Ryan Hanson)
Del Mar Debutante fifth-place finisher has three return rivals to leap in this spot and will have to do so from a difficult post position. Poor start didn’t help her cause last out, but the jury is undecided if her turf sprint debut wasn’t the better effort for a Fast Anna filly with dirt and turf pedigree.