Super Patriot © Benoit Photo

Little Red Feather Racing and partners’ Super Patriot, a 5-year-old mare coming off a smart stakes tally at a mile on the grass at Santa Anita last month, wheels back in another grass miler – the $65,000 Osunitas Stakes – this Sunday at Del Mar in the featured attraction on the 10-race card.

Super Patriot, who starts from the rail in the field of seven, has been made the 8-5 morning line favorite in the test for fillies and mares, aged 3 and up.

The daughter of the late stallion Unusual Heat, California’s top sire for nearly a decade, shows six wins, five seconds and six third from 28 starts with earnings of more than $350,000. Super Patriot was claimed last June for $35,000 and has been a model of consistence since, winning three races, running second twice and finishing third once.

Flavien Prat, who handled her in her recent score, is back up on Sunday.

Her chief threats in the overnight stakes appear to be Ruis Racing’s Sedamar and Charles or Gordon’s Ziarah.

Sedemar ran second to Super Patriot in her winning effort last month at Santa Anita, beaten just under two lengths. She’s a two-turn turf specialist – 11 of her last 12 outings have been in that format – and she’s won four of those starts while finishing second three other times and driving her bankroll up to just under $250,000. She’ll have Brice Blanc in the irons.

Ziarah, another 5-year-old mare, comes into the miler on a four-race win skein, all accomplished in Northern California. She’s been running mostly on the synthetic surface at Golden Gate Fields, though she does show a pair of turf victories on her ledger. Her regular jockey, Frank Alvarado, makes the trip south to ride her once more.

Here’s the complete lineup for this 65th running of the Osunitas in post position order with rider and morning line odds:

Super Patriot; Don’t Blame Judy (Amir Cedillo, 8-1); Ziarah (4-1); Meal Ticket (Tiago Pereira, 12-1); Desert Oasis (Victor Espinoza, 8-1); Cordiality (Umberto Rispoli, 6-1), and Sedamar (7/2).

First post Sunday will be 2 p.m. and the Osunitas is carded as the sixth race on the 10-race card.