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Into Mischief Filly Continues Upward Trajectory in Zenyatta

Lightly raced Private Mission handled older foes with aplomb Sunday, earning a guaranteed spot in the starting gate for the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff in the process. A debut winner sprinting here nearly a year ago, the bay was a speed-and-fade fourth at odds-on in the following month's Desi Arnaz S. at Del Mar and subsequently went missing. She reappeared to annex a local optional claimer in June, and took to two turns emphatically when romping by 6 1/2 lengths in Del Mar's GIII Torrey Pines S. Aug. 21.

Keeping longshot Samurai Charm (First Samurai) in her sights early, the bay took a clear advantage entering the home bend and looked like the winner every step of the way after that. As Time Goes By completed the exacta and a big weekend for Bob Baffert that also included victories in the GI Awesome Again S. and GI American Pharoah S.

“I'm happy to run one-two,” Baffert said. “Private Mission, I'm glad I stayed home with her. I decided this would be best for her with the Breeders' Cup in mind, we didn't want to stress her.  She's on the improve, getting better and better. I'm really happy with the way both fillies ran.”

Private Mission was scratched out of last Saturday's GI Cotillion S. at Parx.

“She broke well and got herself into the race,” jockey Flavien Prat said of his winning trip. “She relaxed well and took a nice breather going to the three eighths pole and ran good when I asked her to make her move. I thought this race was better than last time, for sure.”

Sunday, Santa Anita
ZENYATTA S.-GII, $201,500, Santa Anita, 10-3, 3yo/up, f/m,
1 1/16m, 1:43.77, ft.
1–PRIVATE MISSION, 120, f, 3, by Into Mischief
                1st Dam: Private Gift (SW, $212,248), by Unbridled
                2nd Dam: Private Status, by Alydar
                3rd Dam: Miss Eva (Arg), by Con Brio II
($750,000 Ylg '19 FTSAUG). O-Baoma Corporation; B-Mt.
Brilliant Broodmares I LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-Flavien Prat.
$120,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0, $256,800. *1/2 to Secret
Someone (A.P. Indy), MSW & GSP, $409,301. Werk Nick
Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–As Time Goes By, 124, f, 4, American Pharoah–Take Charge
Lady, by Dehere. O-Michael B. Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier &
Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale & Chelston (KY); T-Bob Baffert.
$40,000.
3–Miss Bigly, 122, m, 5, Gemologist–Miss Puzzle (Aus), by
Citidancer (Ire). ($120,000 Wlg '16 KEENOV; $20,000 Ylg '17
KEESEP). O-Agave Racing Stable & Rockin Robin Racing Stables;
B-SF Bloodstock LLC (KY); T-Philip D'Amato. $24,000.
Margins: 2 1/4, 2 1/4, 6HF. Odds: 1.10, 1.70, 17.80.
Also Ran: Stellar Sound, Lady Kate, Samurai Charm, Miss Stormy D, California Kook. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

Pedigree Notes:
Private Mission is one of 45 graded stakes winners for leading sire Into Mischief–three of which have been out of Unbridled mares, led by champion female sprinter Covfefe. Important broodmare sire Unbridled is responsible for the dams of 43 graded winners, including the likes of Tapit, Orb and Shackleford.

The winner's dam was a two-turn stakes winner on the dirt at Louisiana Downs. A half-sister to 2000 GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Secret Status (A.P. Indy), she sold to Greg Goodman's Mt. Brilliant for $2.3 million while in foal to A.P. Indy at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Another A.P. Indy daughter of Private Gift, MSW and GSP Secret Someone, was represented by a $1-million Into Mischief colt that sold to Mike Ryan at the recent Keeneland September sale. Private Gift's daughter Gift List (Bernardini) is the dam of GISW Dunbar Road (Quality Road), who is expected to contest next Saturday's GI Juddmonte Spinster S., another prep for the Distaff.

Private Gift's 2-year-old filly Batik (Honor Code), a $240,000 KEESEP grad, has been working regularly at Monmouth Park. The 19-year-old mare was given a year off after foaling Batik, but produced a Candy Ride (Arg) colt Apr. 1 and was bred back to Uncle Mo.

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Private Mission Wins Zenyatta, Earns Distaff Berth In Breeders’ Cup

Heavily favored Private Mission, who was originally scheduled to run out of town last weekend, stayed home and was a convincing 2 ¼-length winner of Sunday's Grade 2, $200,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Flavien Prat, Private Mission got 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.77 and earned a fees-paid berth into the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 6 as the Zenyatta is a Breeders' Cup “Win & You're In” Challenge Race qualifier.

Baffert, who opted to stay home with the 3-year-old Into Mischief filly instead of running in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes near Philadelphia on Sept. 26, ran one-two in the Zenyatta as his As Time Goes By completed the exacta.

Blessed with an abundance of early speed, Private Mission sat just off of pacesetter Samurai Charm in the run up the backside.  Prat stepped on the gas leaving the three-furlong marker and Private Mission enjoyed a 2 ½-length advantage turning for home in what appeared to be her best race yet in career start number five.

“I'm happy to run one-two,” said Baffert.  “Private Mission, I'm glad I stayed home with her.  I decided this would be best for her with the Breeders' Cup in mind, we didn't want to stress her.  She's on the improve, getting better and better.  I'm really happy with the way both fillies ran.”

A 6 ½-length winner going a flat mile in the G3 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 21, Private Mission was off at even money in a field of eight fillies and mares three and up and paid $4.20, $2.40 and $2.20.

“She broke well and got herself into the race,” said Prat, who rode her to her Del Mar win on Aug. 21.  “She relaxed well and took a nice breather going to the three-eighths pole and ran good when I asked her to make her move.  I thought this race was better than last time, for sure.”

Owned by Baoma Corporation, Private Mission, who is out of the Unbridled mare Private Gift, picked up $120,000 for the win, boosting her earnings to $256,800 while getting her fourth win from five outs. She was bred in Kentucky by Mt. Brilliant Broodmares LLC and sold for $750,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale.

Ridden by John Velazquez, As Time Goes By kept to her task gamely late and in a much improved effort, finished 2 ¼ lengths in front of Miss Bigly.  The second choice at 5-2, she paid $2.80 and $2.20.

Miss Bigly, mid-pack early, was easily third, finishing 6 ½ lengths in front of Stellar Sound.  Ridden by Juan Hernandez, Miss Bigly paid $3.40 to show.

Fractions on the race were 23.21, 46.87, 1:11.45 and 1:36.89.

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Re-Routed Private Mission Tops Zenyatta Field

Bob Baffert's budding star Private Mission, originally scheduled to run in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes near Philadelphia Sept. 25, will take on older competition for the first time on Sunday as she bids for her third consecutive win in the Grade 2, $200,000 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita. Named in honor of racing's 2010 Eclipse Horse of the Year, the Zenyatta, which has attracted a field of eight fillies and mares three and up, will be contested at a mile and one sixteenth. A Breeders' Cup “Win & You're In” Challenge Race qualifier, the Zenyatta winner will earn a fees-paid berth into the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff Nov. 6 at Del Mar.

In what was her second start of the year and first time around two turns, Private Mission, a 3-year-old filly by Into Mischief, was a resounding 6 ½ length winner going a flat mile in the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes Aug. 21 at Del Mar, a race in which she galloped out a football field in front of her competition mid-way around the clubhouse turn. Private Mission, who is owned by Baoma Corporation, retains the services of Flavien Prat, will no doubt be forwardly placed as she seeks her fourth win from five career starts.

Although beaten a combined 27 lengths in a pair of Grade 1 stakes, the Clement Hirsch at Del Mar on Aug. 1 and the Personal Ensign at Saratoga Aug. 28, Baffert's As Time Goes By will hope to regain the form she held when winning both the Grade 2 Santa Maria here on May 22 and the Grade 2 Santa Margarita (by 9 ¼ lengths) on April 24. Second to Eclipse Champ Swiss Skydiver five starts back in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile on March 13, As Time Goes By has three wins from five tries over the Santa Anita main track. Owned by Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Mrs. John Magnier, As Time Goes By, a 4-year-old filly by American Pharoah, is 9-4-2-1 with earnings of $415,600.

Don Alberto Stable's homebred Stellar Sound will stretch out off a third place finish in the Rancho Bernardo while Peter Miller's streaking Samurai Charm, an impressive gate to wire allowance winner going one mile in her last two starts, tries stakes company for the first time and seeks her fifth consecutive win. Phil D'Amato's Miss Bigly, fresh off victory in the restricted one mile Tranquility Lake Stakes Aug. 27, seeks her first graded stakes win in what will be her 23rd career start.

THE GRADE 2 ZENYATTA STAKES WITH JOCKEYS & WEIGHTS IN POST POSITION ORDER

Race 9 of 10 Approximate post time 5 p.m. PT

  1. Samurai Charm—Kyle Frey–122
  2. As Time Goes By—John Velazquez—124
  3. Private Mission—Flavien Prat—120
  4. Miss Bigly—Juan Hernandez—122
  5. California Kook—Abel Cedillo–122
  6. Miss Stormy D—Geovanni Franco—122
  7. Lady Kate—Joe Bravo—122
  8. Stellar Sound—Drayden Van Dyke–122

The Zenyatta is one of five stakes on a 10-race card Sunday with first post time at 1 p.m. For additional information, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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Post Position Leads Baffert To Scratch Medina Spirit From Pennsylvania Derby

Medina Spirit has been withdrawn from Saturday's Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing, owing to his outside post position, trainer Bob Baffert told the Albany Times Union's Tim Wilkin on Tuesday.

The son of Protonico drew the ninth post in a 10-horse field.

Baffert will also scratch Grade 3 winner Private Mission from the G1 Cotillion Stakes on the same card, and point her toward the G2 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Oct. 3.

“I don't like to put them on a plane unless I feel real good about it,” Baffert told Wilkin. “Medina looks good, I just don't like the way the race was setting up. I feel part of my success is knowing when to run and doing what's right for the horse.”

The Pennsylvania Derby would have been Medina Spirit's second race back from a summer layoff, following a win in the Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 29. Prior to his three-month break, Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby from the #8 post, then finished third in the Preakness Stakes.

Baffert said Medina Spirit would be redirected to face older competition in the G1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 2. If he performs well in the prep race, he will be pointed toward the Breeders' Cup.

Medina Spirit was installed as the 2-to-1 morning line favorite for the Pennsylvania Derby. In his absence, favoritism will likely fall on Hot Rod Charlie, a multiple classic-placed Grade 2 winner who most recently finished first in the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park, but was disqualified to last for his role in unseating the rider from Midnight Bourbon, who he will face again on Saturday at Parx.

 

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