I guess Baffert cares about the training title at Del Mar

[Calzone Lord]

The horse was a gate scratch -- never thought I'd see a day where a jockey scratches a Baffert horse.

The 9th choice in the field of 10 wins and pays $50.20 -- Peter Miller's 9k claimer was 2nd.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The horse was a gate scratch -- never thought I'd see a day where a jockey scratches a Baffert horse.

The 9th choice in the field of 10 wins and pays $50.20 -- Peter Miller's 9k claimer was 2nd.

The 1 had an interesting trip. Broke slow had a lot of run but got shy about going up the rail.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by 3kings

The 1 had an interesting trip. Broke slow had a lot of run but got shy about going up the rail.

Yep. The race was kind of weak though after the scratch of the Baffert.

I remember one of my grandfathers favorite stories. My father trained an Ohio Bred he dropped into a claiming race at Commodore. He found out that the horse was going to get claimed -- so my grandfather tells him 'don't worry about it. I'll turn her loose'

In those days at that track, jockeys couldn't always get a gate scratch. They could take the horse to the vet -- but if the vet thought the horse was fine -- they'd only allow the jockey off and get another rider.

So, my grandfather takes her to the gap and lets her go...and the horse wouldn't move and was just standing there. So, he starts yelling and charging at her...and its in a spot where a bunch of people could see it. People are looking at him like he's crazy. Finally the horse ran off and he ended up getting the scratch.

My father tried to argue to the stewards that he was sometimes afraid of horses -- and one of them said "he didn't look too affraid" -- they ended up fining him for it.

My grandfather said that he was seconds away from throwing rocks at the horse to get her to go.

[Calzone Lord]

Peter Miller won both the 2nd and 3rd race.

Now leads Baffert 20-to-19.

He almost swept the early pick 3.

[asudevil]

Renee just missed a track record. She broke a little sideways.

[Calzone Lord]

Comma To The Top wins.

3 wins today for Peter Miller -- Baffert is toast.

[ranger5830]

Baffert made a similar move this year with a horse called Solar Rocket, who was coming off a year layoff following a race where he had lost by a head in 1:07 1/5, he was dropped in for $12.5k non-winners of 2, where amazingly he was only 6/5, and won by 12 in 1:08 1/5.

Only one claim was put in for him, by Mark Glatt, who ran him back two weeks later for $16k, he won easily in 1:14 3/5 for 6 1/2 f and wasn't claimed. He has won 2 of 6 for $52k since being claimed, and is entered Saturday in a $39k allowance optional claimer at Fairplex, so he certainly was a good claim for $12,500.