ARCADIA, Calif. (AP)—Out of Bounds rallied in a widen to flog 1-2
favorite Secret Circle by a half-length in a $100,000 Sham Stakes, a first
Kentucky Derby prep of a deteriorate during Santa Anita on Saturday.
Secret Circle, who led quickly into a stretch, mislaid for a initial time in
four career starts for Hall of Fame tutor Bob Baffert.
There was another dissapoint in a $150,000 San Pasqual Stakes when 7-1 shot Uh
Oh Bango degraded favorite Tres Borrachos by 1 3-4 lengths.
In a Sham, 10-1 shot Out of Bounds with Garrett Gomez aboard ran a mile in
1:34.56 and paid $22.60, $5.80 and $4.40. Gomez extended his strain of
consecutive stakes victories during a lane to 4 dating to New Year’s Day when
he incited 40.
Secret Circle, final year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint winner, returned
$2.80 and $2.10, while Longview Drive was another half-length behind in third and
paid $4 to show. They were a usually dual stakes winners in a margin of five
3-year-olds.
Trained by Eoin Harty, Out of Bounds is a son of 2001 BC Distaff winner
Unbridled Elaine and Discreet Cat, a 2006 UAE Derby leader who never raced in
the Triple Crown series. The colt is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, who races as Darley Stable.
Out of Bounds was fourth in his career entrance during Santa Anita final tumble and
then won opposite city during Hollywood Park final month.
“He’s a really large horse, though he’s a peaceful giant,” Harty said. “He’s come
around mentally as good as physically, and infrequently it takes a while for both
to locate up.”
Harty has been on a Triple Crown route before with Colonel John, who won
the 2008 Sham Stakes and Santa Anita Derby. He went on to finish sixth in the
Kentucky Derby.
“He’s a closest thing to Colonel John I’ve had in a prolonged time,” the
trainer pronounced about Out of Bounds, whose subsequent start is uncertain though will be
another of a arriving Kentucky Derby preps during Santa Anita.
Secret Circle was stretching out to a mile for a initial time after proving
himself to be a good sprinter.
“He only got beat. He didn’t tighten it down,” Baffert said. “He wasn’t
exhausted when he came back, so it was a good knowledge for him. It was the
first time he was means to rate off of horses. we consider he got a lot out of it.”
Rafael Bejarano pronounced Secret Circle showed a large flog during a tip of the
stretch, when he was battling Longview Drive for a lead.
“At a same time, he started looking during a equine on a rail,” Bejarano
said. “My equine attempted to stay tighten to him and that’s because he lugged in. That’s
when we started attack him. He upheld a inside horse, though wasn’t paying
attention to a outward equine (Out of Bounds).”
Coming off a widen turn, Gomez suspicion he was going to run right by
Secret Circle.
“But this equine is only immature adequate to where he doesn’t utterly understand
everything about a diversion yet,” he said. “I had to pat him a integrate times to
let him know what we was wanting from him, and when we got into him a little
bit he progressed and went forward.”
Baffert was neutral on his destiny skeleton for Secret Circle, owned by
Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, a contingent who owned 2010 Preakness
winner Lookin At Lucky.
Handsome Mike was fourth and Hierro fifth.
In a San Pasqual, Hall of Fame manoeuvre Mike Smith guided Uh Oh Bango over 1
1-16 miles in 1:41.44. He paid $16 to win. Skipshot was another 2 1-4 lengths
back in third.
