by rob_onlion | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
Michael Lund Petersen’s Adare Manor, fresh off a 12-length maiden special weight tour de force, turned in another breathtaking performance in the Feb. 6 $196,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park. The 3-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo glided to the...
by rob_onlion | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
Messier gave trainer Bob Baffert and jockey John Velazquez their second dominant graded winner of the afternoon when he flew home an unchallenged victor of the GIII Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita Sunday. There was no running down Messier, who galloped home by 15...
by rob_onlion | Feb 1, 2022 | Media
Trainer Bob Baffert took home his third El Camino Real Derby trophy when the lightly-raced Blackadder blitzed by slow-starting Mackinnon in deep stretch to win by a neck. The second choice was Blackadder, one of many talented 3-year-olds Hall of Famer Baffert has...
by rob_onlion | Jan 29, 2022 | Media
A lightly raced, once-pricey juvenile trained by Bob Baffert won the GIII Palos Verdes S: the $300,000 OBS April 2-year-old Essential Wager (Honor Code) who was making his stakes debut after riding a two-race win streak. “This horse is getting better and better,...
by rob_onlion | Jan 29, 2022 | Media
Unbeaten Newgrange (Violence) found his best stride late to justify 3-2 favoritism in Oaklawn’s $750,000 GIII Southwest S. “We saw he had a different dimension today, the way the race set up,” said trainer Bob Baffert, who tied Bob Holthus’s record five...