SANTA ANITA : Balla Cove, Farma Way Head Field

Balla Cove, a Group I stakes winner in his native England, and Farma Way, runner-up in the Grade I Hollywood Futurity, head a field of six sophomores in the $75,000-added Los Feliz Stakes on Wednesday at Santa Anita.

With six starters, the Los Feliz will offer a total purse of $80,175, of which $46,425 will go to the victor.

Robyn Dancer, a multiple-stakes winner in the East, will carry maximum weight of 120 pounds. He posted five victories in nine tries on the Atlantic coast, including the World Playground, Jet Pilot and Vanlandingham Stakes. In his most recent starts, he missed by a head in the Grade II Laurel Futurity and was ninth in the Breeders’ Cup.

Balla Cove will be making his first start since finishing seventh as the pacesetter in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, his American premiere for trainer Ron McAnally. That is his only start on dirt, after winning two of seven turf sprints in England.

With only a maiden win in three starts, Farma Way gets into the Los Feliz with the minimum impost of 114 pounds.

From the rail, the cast includes Mathis and Lukas’ Top Cash, Chris McCarron riding at 118 pounds; Brereton Jones’ Apprised, Russell Baze, 114; Herrick and No Problem Stable’s Robyn Dancer, Eddie Delahoussaye, 120; Quarter B Farm’s Farma Way, Ray Sibille, 114; Cohen, King and Recachina’s Balla Cove, Laffit Pincay Jr., 118, and Lukas and Overbrook Farm’s Land Rush, Gary Stevens, 114.

D. Wayne Lukas trains the entry of Top Cash and Land Rush. Top Cash enjoyed this track in a victory in the Desert Wine Sales Stakes in November. He was second in the Hollywood Prevue and fourth in the San Miguel Stakes in his most recent efforts.

FINISH LINES . . . Hall of Fame trainer Charlie Whittingham will be honored as part of the California Equine Retirement Foundation’s first annual banquet Sunday at the Sheraton Grande Hotel in Los Angeles. Tickets are $125 and are available by calling Grace Belocure at 714-926-4190 or Anne Palmer at 619-259-5320. . . . Aaron Barisoff has taken over as agent for Billy Fox, Jr., who recently returned from Hong Kong, and apprentice Curtis Kimes. . . . Variety Road is expected to ship south from Bay Meadows for the $100,000-added San Carlos Handicap on Saturday. . . . The William Kyne Handicap will be simulcast here that day. . . . Alex Solis has taken calls on Cheval Volant in the Bay Meadows Oaks on Jan. 20 and Single Dawn in the El Camino Real Derby at the same site the next day.