Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman and trainer Bob Baffert unveiled a potentially important juvenile in Saturday’s seventh race from Del Mar, as Cave Rock (c, 2, Arrogate–Georgie’s Angel, by Bellamy Road) took the race by the scruff of the neck not long after the start and scampered clear to become the afternoon’s second ‘TDN Rising Star’. Heavily backed as the 6-5 chalk in a strong-looking group on paper, the dark bay shot through to take up the running as the field linked up with the track proper and he clicked off an opening couple of furlongs in a swift :22.10.
