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Baffert Saddles Super as Cave Rock Dominates American Pharoah

Unbeaten 'TDN Rising Star' Cave Rock (Arrogate) led home a one-two-three-four finish for Hall of Famer Bob Baffert in Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GI American Pharoah S. at Santa Anita. It was the 11th winner for Baffert in the race named in honor of his 2015 Triple Crown winner.

The eye-catching last-out GI Del Mar Futurity winner, off as the 2-5 favorite here, went straight to the front in this two-turn debut, led comfortably through fractions of :22.96 and :46.82 and seemed to play possum a bit on the turn. With a shake of the reins as they straightened, he opened up again when called upon by jockey Juan Hernandez and poured it on in the lane to score by 5 1/4 lengths.

Del Mar debut winner National Treasure (Quality Road), $3.55-million EASMAY topper and maiden Hejazi (Bernardini) and Los Al debut winner Gandolfini (Justify) followed home their stablemate in that order.

Cave Rock entered off a pair of flashy Del Mar wins, scoring on debut by six lengths Aug. 13 and added the Del Mar Futurity by 5 1/4 lengths last time Sept. 11.

Longtime Baffert clients and winning owners Michael Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman also campaign unbeaten Speed Boat Beach (Bayern), who punched his ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint via Santa Anita's Speakeasy S.

“I can't remember running one, two, three, four, ever,” Baffert said. “The really good ones come around quicky and he's always been different, he's built a bit different than Arrogate. He's powerful, stronger and he's quick. He runs with his head sort of low like Arrogate. He just keeps improving, he trains easily. I really don't work him too fast, you have to count on their talent to get them there.

Baffert continued, “Today, those were some good horses behind him. Those colts, you are going to hear about them down the road. Right now, he's what you need, he's something that is right now and something that will be in for the next thirty days.”

Pedigree Notes:

Cave Rock, a $210,000 KEENOV weanling and $550,000 KEESEP yearling, is one of three graded winners–all Grade I winners–and the sixth black-type winner overall for the much-missed Arrogate. Like Arrogate's GII Chandelier S. heroine And Tell Me Nolies, Cave Rock was prepared for his first trip through the sales ring by Mulholland Springs, and like the Chandelier victress, the colt also hails from a Danzig-line dam. Cave Rock's yearling full-brother topped this year's Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale on a bid of $700,000 from Tom McCrocklin, agent for Champion Equine, and 2011 GIII Schuylerville S. winner Georgie's Angel produced an Improbable filly this year before being bred back to Connect. Georgie's Angel brought $75,000 from Longford Farm at the 2020 KEENOV sale.

Saturday, Santa Anita

AMERICAN PHAROAH S.-GI, $301,500, Santa Anita, 10-8, 2yo,
1 1/16m, 1:43.05, ft.
1–CAVE ROCK, 122, c, 2, by Arrogate
       1st Dam: Georgie's Angel (GSW, $129,564), by Bellamy Road
       2nd Dam: Lalka, by Dynaformer
       3rd Dam: Celmis, by Bold Ruckus
   'TDN Rising Star' ($210,000 Wlg '20 KEENOV; $550,000 Ylg '21
KEESEP). O-Michael Pegram, Karl Watson & Paul Weitman;
B-Anne and Ronnie Sheffer Racing LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert;
J-Juan J. Hernandez. $180,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0,
$408,000. Click for Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating:
   A++.
2–National Treasure, 122, c, 2, Quality Road–Treasure, by
Medaglia d'Oro. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE,
   1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($500,000 Ylg '21 FTSAUG). O-SF Racing
LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Masterson, Robert
E., Stonestreet Stables LLC, Schoenfarber, Jay A., Waves Edge
Capital LLC and Donovan, Catherine; B-Peter E. Blum
Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $60,000.
3–Hejazi, 122, c, 2, Bernardini–G Note, by Medaglia d'Oro.
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK
   TYPE. ($3,550,000 2yo '22 EASMAY). O-Zedan Racing Stables,
Inc.; B-Chester Broman & Mary R. Broman (NY); T-Bob Baffert.
$36,000.
Margins: 5 1/4, 3HF, 3 1/4. Odds: 0.40, 9.80, 2.90.
Also Ran: Gandolfini, Man Child, Skinner, Macnamara, Odonata.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Oct. 9 Insights: Baffert Unveils Pair of Justify Colts

6th-SA, $61K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 3:38 p.m. EDT

Bob Baffert unveils a pair of colts by his undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify in ARABIAN LION and Elwood Blues. Arabian Lion summoned $600,000 at the OBS April Sale after breezing in :10 flat. Out of SP Unbound (Distorted Humor), the chestnut enters off a trio of bullet works all in company with Elwood Blues. The pair most recently breezed a best-of-59 five furlongs in :58 4/5 at Santa Anita Oct. 2 with Elwood Blues. The group known as the Three Amigos went to $380,000 at KEESEP for Elwood Blues, a son of GSW & GISP Blingismything (Arch). TJCIS PPs

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October 8 Insights: Half to Always Dreaming, Hot Dixie Chick Debuts

2nd-KEE, $100k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:31p.m. ET
Conditioner Brendan Walsh sends out a blue-blooded filly here in HUMBLING (Quality Road), who lays claim to a stellar female family which includes 'TDN Rising Star', GISW (and eventual producer of 'Rising Stars') Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union) and GI Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming (Bodemeister). The former has a pair of talented offspring to her credit when counting GISW Pauline's Pearl (Tapit) and GSP Union Jackson (Curlin). Humbling, a $1 million FTSAUG purchase by Jeff Drown and Michael Ryan in 2021, claims Positive Spirit (Pioneerof the Nile) as a half-relation, who changed hands to Spendthrift Farm in 2020 for $1.5 million at FTKNOV. The dam Above Perfection (In Excess {Ire}) herself earned GISP black-type with a runner-up effort in the Prioress. Humbling will break from the far outside in a full field of 12 and is coming in off a co-bullet gate work Sept. 29, covering four furlongs beneath the Twin Spires in :47.20 (1/48). TJCIS PPs

11th-KEE, $100k, Msw, 3yo/up, 7f, 6:18p.m. ET
Repole and St Elias Stable partner once again to send out OLD POINT (Curlin), half-brother to GISW & GI Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up Collected (City Zip). Purchased as a yearling in 2020 for $475,000 at KEESEP, the chestnut is half to stakes-producer Helena's Triomphe (Arch) and hails from the family of GSP Koala Princess (More Than Ready). Bred by Three Chimneys, Runnymede, and Peter Callahan, Old Point took some time to get to the races but has made religious appearances on the work tab leading up to this debut. Todd Pletcher will send him out with Irad Ortiz Jr. getting the call for the seven panel sprint. TJCIS PPs

1st-BAQ, $95k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6fT, 12:35p.m. ET
Shipping in from Europe after being purchased for 420,000gns at TATOCT, EIN GEDI (IRE) (Oasis Dream {GB}) will carry not just the popular flag of MyRacehorse but those of Siena Farm, Peter Deutsch, Michael Kisber, and The Elkstone Group. Out of the stakes-winning Splashdown (GB) (Falbrav {Ire}), the filly is a half to Spanish Champion 2-year-old filly Reina Madre (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) and is a full-sibling to 11-time winner, GSW Aktabantay (GB). This is the female family of Italian Champion 3-year-old filly and blue hen Proskona (Mr. Prospector), who counted nine black-type earners as the dam or granddam, and herself was half to German Highweight horse Keos. The Chad Brown barn will send Ein Gedi to post with Manny Franco in the irons. TJCIS PPs

4th-SA, $61k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 5:34p.m. ET
RILEY G (Flatter) will carry not just the torch for Zedan Racing and Bob Baffert, but also another big tag after being secured for $625,000 at OBSOPN; zipping a furlong in :9 4/5 back in June. The grey is a half to three winners, but black-type makes an appearance underneath the second dam, who claims GI Darley Alcibiades victress Wickedly Perfect (Congrats). That mare later produced Japanese GSW Hartley (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in her adoptive country after selling for $800,000 KEEJAN to Katsumi Yoshida in 2011. Also in the pedigree is stakes-producer Wicked Mizz (Mizzen Mast) and GSP Ash Zee (Exchange Rate); the latter counts GSP The Reds (Tonalist) and Zee Drop (Lemon Drop Kid). Carrying the banner for Justify is $450,000 KEESEP stablemate California Rocket, a half-sister to MGSW Global View (Galileo {Ire}) and the dam of GSP Catch the Eye (Quality Road). TJCIS PPs

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Bayern Colt Secures His Spot for Juvenile Turf Sprint

Pegram, Watson and Weitman's Speed Boat Beach (Bayern), owner of a gaudy 104 Beyer Speed Figure for his Sept. 10 debut score on the Del Mar dirt over $3.55-million stablemate Hejazi (Bernardini) after blazing a furlong in a bullet :9.3 at OBSMAR, took to the turf with aplomb in Sunday's Speakeasy S. at Santa Anita, earning an automatic berth into the starting gate for the Nov. 4 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Backed like a lock at 2-5 making a rare dirt-to-turf move for Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, the dark bay locked on to even speedier Helladic (Kantharos) early after a slightly awkward break, pounced on that one at the head of the lane and inched clear from him by 1 1/4 lengths, stopping the clock in :55.25. These same connections took the GII Zenyatta S. one race earlier with Midnight Memories (Mastery), and the GI Awesome Again S. on Saturday with Defunded (Dialed In).

Speed Boat Beach is the lone foal to race out of his dam, a daughter of SW & MGSP Amie's Dini (Bandini). The further female family includes MSW Kid Kate (Lemon Drop Kid) and Frank's Honor (Honor Code), an impressive five-length maiden winner at Churchill Downs Oct. 1. Sophia Mia s the dam of a yearling Distorted Humor filly, a weanling filly by Violence and was bred to Army Mule this season.

SPEAKEASY S., $102,000, Santa Anita, 10-2, 2yo, 5fT, :55.25, fm.
1–SPEED BOAT BEACH, 120, c, 2, by Bayern
1st Dam: Sophia Mia, by Pioneerof the Nile
2nd Dam: Amie's Dini, by Bandini
3rd Dam: Run Kate Run, by Cherokee Run
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($12,000 Ylg '21 OBSOCT; $200,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR). O-Michael E Pegram, Karl Watson & Paul Weitman; B-Caperlane Farm (FL); T-Bob Baffert; J-Juan J Hernandez. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $108,000.
2–Helladic, 120, g, 2, Kantharos–Gal About Town, by City Zip. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. ($50,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Robin D Dunn, Richard Gardner & Ryan Hanson; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Ryan Hanson. $20,000.
3–Ah Jeez, 120, c, 2, Mendelssohn–Poetic, by Violence. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. ($80,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $55,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR).
O-Mark Davis; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Doug F O'Neill. $12,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, HF, HD. Odds: 0.40, 9.00, 8.80.
Also Ran: Mas Rapido (GB), Wound Up, Straighten Up, Arman, Flame Rider, Taltariate. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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