Last two years, Sham Staking (G3) at Santa Anita . Park has been an important preparation on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, producing the final two winners of the first leg of the Triple Crown. Real won both races in 2020 and runner-up Sham last year, Medina Spirit , joined Run for the Roses, both of whom did so for Hall of Fame coach Bob Baffert.
Will Baffert win or win with a horse this coming January 1st, $100,000—and he runs two games, Rockefeller and Newgrange —May not have the same connotation as classical. Although Sham offers Kentucky Derby qualifying scores presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) on a 10-4-2-1 scale, horses trained by an individual are suspended by Churchill Downs do not accumulate points according to current track rules.
As a property owner, Churchill Downs Inc. suspended Baffert during the spring 2023 meeting at Churchill Downs after Zedan Racing Stables’ Medina Spirit tested positive for betamethasone after finishing in first place in the May 1 Kentucky Derby there. . Eight months after the race, the management hearing regarding the Derby is yet to take place.
The colt collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack after a practice session on December 6 at Santa Anita.
Regardless of the Derby score, Baffert, a seven-time one-mile Sham winner, was still seen as a force on Saturday with his cadets, who took down just three enemies, Oviatt class , Mackinnon , and Risk level .
Rockefeller beat Nashua Stakes at Belmont Park
Rockefeller (Medaglia d’Oro ) and Newgrange (Violence ) share similar ownership, albeit to different degrees. Rockefeller, who raced for SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables and Robert Masterson as 2v3, won a race first and Nashua Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park, with fourth place in the middle of American Pharoah Stakes (G1).
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Newgrange, owned by Golconda Stable, Madaket Stables, SF Racing, Siena Farm, Starlight Racing, Stonestreet Stables, Waves Edge Capital, Catherine Donovan, Robert Masterson and Jay Schoenfarber, took the single win Nov. First race at Del Mar.
John Velazquez rode Newgrange while Flavien Prat rode the Rockefeller.
Mackinnon, who racer for Colorado Avalanche defends ERJ Racing’s cavalry Erik Johnson, Madaket Stables, and Dave Kenney, has the class to compete in Saturday’s race. That is, if American pharoah colt out Go, dad mare Go means go can transfer his form from the pitch to the dirt. All three of his wins have come at a mile on the grass, including two deposit wins, and he finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) in Del November. – about finish in the long 4 1/2 sprint at Santa Anita on launch day May 9.
His coach, two-time Derby champion Doug O’Neill, said: “He’s always worked well on the ground. “His debut on the dirt track wasn’t as good as we had hoped. We’ve seen a lot of this American Pharoah run well on the pitch, so we brought him on, and we started. saw him begin to show what we had seen these mornings.
“It’s one of those things where we hope his physical and mental maturity will enable him to run on the ground at the same level that he has run on grass.”
Since returning from Del Mar, he has posted four quick breezes at Santa Anita. During a parallel exercise on the training track on December 19, he discovered a fellow coworker about five lengths behind him, traveling ardently to reel in that opponent, and then overwhelm his opponent. He covered five feathers at: 59 1/5.
Juan Hernandez, aboard the Mackinnon in his final five races, is back in the irons.
“We knew the water was going to be deep on Saturday, but we thought he was ready to swim with them,” said O’Neill, who won the 2013 Sham Prize. Gold Coins .
Also with the Breeders’ Cup experience is James Downey’s Oviatt Class. Keith Desormeaux’s son was trained by Bernardini placed fifth in the TVG Breeders’ Cup for Juveniles presented by the Thoroughbred Post-Pure Care Alliance (G1). Started slow, he was tested entering the second turn, then regrouped wide through weary horses to complete 8 1/2 lengths behind to victory Corniche , the 2-year-old champion can happen.
Desormeaux said: “Perhaps the horse is not the greatest gatebreaker. “But I don’t see that as a problem for him. When he goes far I think it’s Kent’s style. The horse didn’t run his race at Del Mar (in the Juvenile) and I not yet” t figured it out.
“We’re excited and full of expectations for a big race based on how he’s been training, and that’s not just my opinion. He won 20-1 at the light line and finished with The score was 9-1, so he was a hot horse, an insider’s horse, and I thought the gamblers were right, but he didn’t produce and I didn’t have an answer.
“The horse is doing really well and I think it has a very big year ahead of it, so we took our time, leaving it fresh and Sham seemed like a good spot for it to roll. “
Oviatt Class has 1-0-2 in five starts, a record that includes third place behind Corniche and Pappacap during the American Pharoah at Santa Anita on October 1.
Desormeaux’s brother, jockey Kent Desormeaux, rides a horse.
The other participant, Godolphin’s Risk Level, has four bets for coach Eoin Harty, all on grass or synthetics. The most prestigious is third place in Summer Stakes (G1T) at Honeysuckle September 19.
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Item: Sham S. (G3)
Santa Anita . Park, Saturday, January 1, 2022, Race 7
- Level III
- 1m
- Dust
- 100,000 dollars
- 3 yo
- 3:05pm (local)
