It’s a Bob Baffert exacta in Beholder Mile at Santa Anita

It’s a Bob Baffert exacta in Beholder Mile at Santa Anita

ARCADIA — Bob Baffert often is able to run more than one horse in a big race, and the Hall of Fame trainer knows from experience there’s more than one way for the result to be disappointing. Take last weekend. Baffert sent the two tote-board favorites and a longshot into the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita and watched Barnes, Rodriguez and Mellencamp get out-finished by Michael McCarthy-trained Journalism. An hour later, he tried a pair of hors…

Santa Anita: Cavalieri, Richi go 1-2 for Baffert in Beholder Mile

Cavalieri remained perfect in four starts and bagged her first Grade 1 win Saturday when she ran down stablemate Richi in the $300,000 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita. Both fillies are trained by Bob Baffert.Sent off the even-money favorite under Juan Hernandez, Cavalieri pressed pacesetter Richi, who carved out sharp fractions of 22.56 and 46.24 seconds for the opening half-mile. On the second turn Hernandez started to ask Cavalieri for more. Rich…

Cavalieri Stays Perfect in Beholder Mile

When Speedway Stables LLC spent $900,000 at OBS April in 2023 for a daughter of Nyquist, a 4-year-old campaign and perfect record probably weren't the first things on Peter Fluor and K.C. Weiner's minds. But, nearly two years later, it's likely the partners in Speedway are not upset with a little delayed gratification, as Cavalieri (Nyquist)'s victory Saturday in the $300,000 GI B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile Stakes at Santa Anita made her the ne…