Coach Bob Baffert has accounted for seven of the 11 most recent GIII Bob Hope S. winners, including two of the last three renewals when the race was known as Hollywood Prevue S. and three of the four the last time in Bing Crosby was limited by ‘TDN’s Rising Star’ Messier (Empire Creator) 12 months ago.
It looks like this year’s run also goes through the Baffert warehouse, which will put out three of the seven participants. Havnamemeldown (Uncaptured) was the most successful of the three and was followed by a 6-5 pick on the light line. The smooth first winner of his five-stroke debut on the strip on July 24, the bay edged past hole 10 to crown the popular 2 and a half long win in GIII Best Pal S. Date August 14 and was last seen completing a Baffert 1-2 behind ‘Rising Star’ Cave Rock (Pride) in HOLD Runhappy Del Mar Future on track and distance September 11th.
new gate (Sightstown) also made a similar impression on his debut, graduating with a 3 1/2-inch wide gap, but stumbling slightly when he was beaten by double digits in fourth place in the local Futurity tournament. . Keeneland’s $850,000 September purchase slashed back once leaves a weak fifth in Keeneland’s Future of the GI Claiborne Breeders—won by juvenile hero GI Breeders’ Cup next Forte (Violence) –and turn off the flash on Sunday.
The third part of the Baffert item is the towed rail Hard to imagine (Spin hard), recent winner of the Capote S. restricted at Los Alamitos on September 25, and who received a major saddle upgrade for Flavien Prat.
Girl three times Realistic move (Realistic jokes) was runner-up in his Cave Rock debut and third sprinter on September 3 before winning the one-mile at Santa Anita on October 10.
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