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North County Guy scores a hard-fought neck victory over Heck Yeah under Mario Gutierrez
Content to sit well off the early pace, North County Guy wheeled four-wide at the top of the stretch en route to a hard-earned neck victory in Saturday s $200,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Trained by Richard Baltas and ridden by Mario Gutierrez, North County Guy, a 6-year-old gelding by The Pamplemousse, got a mile and one eighth in 1:46.34 on firm turf.
Presented by City National Bank, the Unusual Heat Turf Classic is part of the CTBA s lucrative Golden State Series for eligible California-bred or sired horses.
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Anoakia Stakes winner Kalypso is one of four runners from the barn of trainer Bob Baffert entered in Sunday s Santa Ynez Stakes for 3-year-old fillies
In a race that as much as anything else underscores the depth of the Bob Baffert stable, his stakes winning Kalypso, who will shorten up out of a second-place effort in a Grade 1 stakes, appears the tepid choice among a field of seven sophomore fillies going seven panels in Sunday s Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.
Baffert, who will send out a total of four fillies in the Santa Ynez, has the one-two finishers from an oddly-run G1 Los Alamitos Starlet on Dec. 5, as his heavily favored Princess Noor, who appeared to be well on her way to victory, was suddenly pulled up at the top of the lane, leaving Kalypso on a lonely lead until rundown by stablemate Varda, who won by 1 ½ lengths at 18-1.
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Bob Baffert-trained Life Is Good won a Nov. 22 maiden race at Del Mar by 9 1/2 lengths
A dazzling 9 ½ length maiden winner in his first start, Bob Baffert s Life Is Good will no doubt be a short priced favorite as he stretches out to a flat mile and heads a field of five sophomores in Saturday s Grade 3, $100,000 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita.
Named in honor of the winner of the 1973 Santa Anita Derby, the Sham winner will receive 10 Kentucky Derby qualifying points, with four to second, two to third and one Derby qualifying point to the fourth place finisher.
Off at 1-5 with Mike Smith up in a field of five going 6 ½ furlongs on Nov. 22 at Del Mar, Life Is Good earned a lofty 91 Beyer Speed figure in his maiden win, easily best of those competing in the Sham. Purchased as a Keeneland September Yearling for $525,000, he made the lead easily through splits of 21.80, 44.80 and 1:09 flat en route to a smashing 9 ½ length score while getting the distance in 1: