Shaaz, the better fancied of a pair of debuting 3-year-olds for trainer Bob Baffert overcame his inexperience and overhauled his barnmate Hopkins (Quality Road) in the dying strides to graduate by a half-length Sunday at Santa Anita. Shaaz, a $185,000 buyback at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, was knocked down to Donato Lanni, agent for Petersen, for the sales-topping price of $1.1-million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after breezing an eighth of a mile in :10 flat. Lanni paid a sales-topping $1.8 million for Gamine (Into Mischief) at FTMMAY in 2019.
