Goodbye Bobby at KEESEP last fall | Photo Keeneland
Via Alan Carasso
4th-ZIA, Zia Park Juvenile S., $50K, 2yo, 6f, posted time: 3:21 ET
After New Mexico coach Todd Fincher signed the winning ticket for $870,000 on one of his ponies. Quality Sugar at the September Sale at Keeneland last year, Bob Baffert overheard saying to Fincher and his owner, Lori Owens, “You bought my horse.” Gray, now named BYE BYE BOBBY will attend Zia Park Juvenile S. on Tuesday, the first of seven games of the match under the Zia Park Derby. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, the April pony has no Revel in the Win (Red Bullet) and is a half-brother to GSW Poker Player (Harlan’s Holiday), MSW Treaty of War (Scat Daddy) and Coleman are betting Rocky (Harlan’s Vacation). The female family also includes Ops Smile’s talented lawn horse (Caveat) from the mid to late 1990s. Fincher told TDNBrian DiDonato of KEESEP last fall. “He just has the perfect body, perfectly proportioned. Breeding was already there. We cannot fault him in any way.” Bye Bye Bobby executes a five-eighth bullet from the entrance: 59 1/5 on November 3 and is a 3-1 second pick in school seven.
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