Fast and Foxy real fast

Fast and Foxy is a quick horse who loves Golden Gate Fields’ Tapeta Footings synthetic surface, and she took advantage of the situation again in Saturday’s $75,450 Bear Fan Stakes.

She won the 6-furlong race for California-bred fillies and mares for the second straight year and improved her Tapeta record to 16 victories in 37 starts and $484,915 in earnings. She is 0-for-9 with $28,890 in earnings on other surfaces.

“For someone like me to have a horse like this is incredible,” said trainer Holly Evans, who co-owns Fast and Foxy with breeder Joe Daehling. “Joe lets me do whatever I want with her, so I just got lucky.”

Fast and Foxy outsped Spring Heat to take a 1-length lead after a first quarter-mile in a comfortable 22.37 seconds

and pushed her advantage to 3 lengths after a half-mile in :45.15.

She still led by 3 lengths in mid-stretch before Southern California invader Cuddle Alert began a threatening rally that fell a half-length short at the wire.

“She wants to go to the lead so you let her do her thing, but you also have to save something for the end,” jockey Catalino Martinez said. “It’s the only way you can ride her. She doesn’t relax. At the threeeighths pole she took a breath and I knew I had a lot of horse, and I was going to be tough to beat.”

Fast and Foxy had lost her previous five starts but only two of those were on Tapeta, including a stakes-quality allowance Oct. 21 in which she tired late after setting fractions of :21.71 and :44.50.

“She was a little short last time, so I gave her some longer workouts and I was confident that I really had her fit for this,” Evans said.

Briefly: Post time was moved back a half-hour to 12:15 p.m. Saturday because of the 10-race program, and that will be in effect Sunday, which is closing day of the fall season. … Central Heat and Lady Valeur top a full field of 14 fillies and mares in Sunday’s Miss America Stakes. … Trainer Bob Baffert swept the Grade 1 races for 2-yearolds with odds-on favorites Saturday at Los Alamitos. McKinzie took the $300,000 CashCall Futurity via the disqualification of another Baffert trainee, Solomini, for interference in the stretch of a tight finish that also included Jerry Hollendorfer-trained Instilled Regard. Dream Tree easily won the $294,000 Starlet for fillies for her third victory in three starts.