With an Eclipse Award for champion 3-year-old male perhaps in the balance, Bob Baffert’s Taiba made one last emphatic appeal for votes as he dominated Santa Anita’s traditional opening day feature, the $300,000 Runhappy Malibu (G1) by 4 ¼ lengths, thus becoming North America’s lone sophomore to annex three Grade 1 races in 2022.
nominations for Santa Anita’s prestigious Grade 1, $300,000 Runhappy Malibu Stakes and five other graded offerings closed Monday with a total of 104 horses nominated
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