So -- how is each doing? Joe and Tyler

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http://www.drf.com/news/article/93427.html

Nice article -- so, after much heated debate, etc. -- what does the aftermath look like? How has each jock been doing? I made a very conscious effort to watch both jocks closely -- and how it played out after Joe gave his book to Scotty McClellan.

Anyone else watching CA racing? I would say it's kind of interesting.

Tyler Baze rises in jockey standings
By STEVE ANDERSEN
ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey Tyler Baze's season has come alive with the start of the spring.

Baze rode 8 winners from 34 mounts from March 27 to Monday to vault past an absent David Flores into third-place in the jockey standings at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting. Through Monday, Baze had won 43 races at the meeting, 20 fewer than leader Garrett Gomez.

"I had a good week in the last week," Baze said.

Saturday, Baze is hoping to pull an upset in one of the meeting's most important races, the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby.

Baze rides the outsider On the Virg, who is making his stakes debut for trainer Todd Pletcher. The mount marks a rare chance for Baze to ride for the nation's leading trainer, who employed Gomez for On the Virg's first three starts - a sixth in a maiden race last December and consecutive wins in a maiden race and an allowance race over 1 1/16 miles this year. Gomez is riding at Aqueduct on Saturday.

"I just appreciate the opportunity," Baze said.

Baze, 25, is riding in the Santa Anita Derby for the second time, having finished second in 2003 aboard Indian Express.

"I just got beat a head in the Santa Anita Derby," he recalled. "I was on the verge of winning, and now I'm On the Virg. Hopefully, he'll run well."

Groan if you must, but Baze's recent results are nothing to scoff at. He is well behind Gomez and Rafael Bejarano in the race for the riding title, but could finish third. The meeting ends April 20.

Less than a year ago, he took six weeks off to deal with an eating disorder. He credits his agent, Ron Ebanks, for helping him return to contention in the jockey's standings.

While the emphasis Saturday is on the Santa Anita Derby, Baze is looking to the Kentucky Derby on May 3 as well. He rides Tres Borrachos in the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park next Saturday.