Monday, March 30, 2015

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND





  • ONE LUCKY DANE DRILLS FOR SANTA ANITA DERBY
  • ‘BELIEF’ SEEKS GOLD OUTSIDE THE GOLDEN STATE
  • BALDWIN AVE. TRAFFIC RE-ROUTED ON DERBY DAY

‘DANE’ AND ‘PHAROAH’ IN ‘NICE’ WORKS FOR BAFFERT

            American Pharoah, the cleanup hitter in Bob Baffert’s Murderers’ Row lineup of Triple Crown contenders, worked five furlongs Sunday morning in 58.60 for the Arkansas Derby on April 11, while One Lucky Dane, flying below the radar until his mile romp by nearly 10 lengths last Thursday, went six furlongs in 1:13.40 under Rafael Bejarano, who rides the son of Lookin At Lucky in next Saturday’s Grade I, $1 million Santa Anita Derby.

One Lucky Dane worked in company with Whiskey Ticket, who was clocked in 1:13.40.
Santa Anita clockers caught American Pharoah in fractions of 23 2/5, 47 1/5 and 58 3/5, with a gallop out time of 1:10 4/5.

“Pharoah went really nice,” Baffert said. “He just cruised around there. One Lucky Dane went really nice, he looked really good. He was finishing up nice, so it looks like the race (on April 19) didn’t take anything out of him.”

Bad Read Sanchez, who figures to be an outsider, also worked Sunday, going five furlongs from the gate in 59.20 in company with One More for Doug O’Neill, who has won the Santa Anita Derby twice in the last three years, with Goldencents in 2013 and I’ll Have Another in 2012. Mario Gutierrez was aboard Bad Read Sanchez.

“We got him in 59 and three,” O’Neill said. “He looked great, good energy, so we’re excited. It’s exactly what we were looking for.”

Probable for the 1 1/8-mile Santa Anita Derby, one of six stakes on a blockbuster card next Saturday that includes the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks: Dortmund, Martin Garcia; Prospect Park, Kent Desormeaux; Bolo, Mike Smith; One Lucky Dane, Rafael Bejarano; Cross the Line, Juan Hernandez; and Bad Read Sanchez, Mario Gutierrez.


In other Santa Anita Derby news:

Jerry Hollendorfer said California Derby winner and El Camino Real Derby runner-up Cross the Line is scheduled to work a half mile Tuesday morning at Santa Anita where the son of Line of David already is bedded down.

“We’re planning on running,” Hollendorfer said. “We’re going to blow him out Tuesday.”
Juan Hernandez, the third-leading rider at Golden Gate with 53 wins through Saturday, has ridden Cross the Line in his last three races, two of them victories, and retains the mount in the Santa Anita Derby.



SHARED BELIEF SET FOR FIRST RACE OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA

            Santa Anita Handicap winner Shared Belief will make his first start outside of California and have his first flight when he runs in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic on April 18.


His previous 11 starts were in the Golden State, 10 of them victories. Only a horrid start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, where he ran fourth, besmirches his record. His longest journeys have been by van from Golden Gate Fields in Albany to Del Mar just north of San Diego.

“There’s always that element of doing something new,” Hollendorfer said of “the best race horse in the country” and the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, “but so far, we’ve shipped him up and down the coast and he hasn’t seemed to mind.

“Flying is different, but we think he’ll do that just fine also.”






SANTA ANITA STATISTICS
(Current Through Saturday, March 28)
JockeyMts1st2nd3rdWin%Money Won
Rafael Bejarano25163353325%$2,903,706
Tyler Baze28537363313%$2,225,944
Kent Desormeaux18232322218%$1,852,500
Victor Espinoza16731322419%$2,024,226
Martin Garcia12725161520%$1,814,830
Elvis Trujillo20824272112%$1,396,250
Joseph Talamo23424264010%$1,671,598
Drayden Van Dyke19322242311%$1,396,187
Mike Smith10121201521%$2,301,211
Corey Nakatani11419111617%$933,348
Santiago Gonzalez12317142014%$742,174
Martin Pedroza15916241910%$697,234
Gary Stevens9416141817%$1,495,818
Fernando Perez1791524188%$763,098
Edwin Maldonado11715111413%$528,154
Tiago Pereira1171491512%$456,532
Flavien Prat13213161510%$733,754
Felipe Valdez7811111314%$357,311
Mario Gutierrez10391599%$469,894
Brice Blanc5272413%$298,810
TrainerSts1st2nd3rdWin%Money Won
Jerry Hollendorfer15429202319%$3,207,292
Peter Miller14226271618%$1,337,516
Bob Baffert9723161324%$1,894,852
Doug O’Neill15920152313%$958,402
John Sadler12217181714%$1,052,764
Richard Baltas741513720%$655,135
Philip D’Amato6715111022%$695,090
Mark Glatt7514141119%$589,942
Peter Eurton8214131417%$842,206
Richard Mandella551191020%$684,616
Ron Ellis57114919%$433,690
Mark Casse57106818%$797,378
Mike Puype99914139%$459,086
James Cassidy67981213%$382,290
Jeff Bonde3491426%$336,640
Steven Miyadi4085420%$249,180
Thomas Proctor4876315%$529,778
Hector Palma2974224%$181,010
A. C. Avila2572328%$208,298
Steve Knapp3772319%$281,140
Jack Carava49610812%$197,850
Michael Pender4668513%$187,080
J. Eric Kruljac5166712%$313,560
William Spawr4866613%$188,890
Eddie Truman1961232%$258,790

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