Corniche Wins Breeders' Cup Juvenile for Embattled Baffert
Corniche won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by 1 3/4 length at Del Mar, stepping the foal as the early top pick for the following year's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where his coach, Bob Baffert, has been restricted.
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Corniche won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by 1 3/4 lengths at Del Mar on Friday, stepping the foal as the early top pick for the following year's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where his coach, Bob Baffert, has been restricted.
Shipped off as the 7-5 top pick, Corniche ran to the lead and remained there under 56-year-old rider Mike Smith. The 2-year-old sound foal ran 1/16 miles in 1:42.50.
"Something doesn't add up about the Breeders' Cup, that for reasons unknown, it simply takes me to another level," said Smith, the occasion's vocation cash winning pioneer among jockeys. "I turn 18 once more and I simply have a fabulous time."
Corniche paid $4.80 to win. Pappacap was second and Giant Game was another 1/2 lengths back in third. Baffert had two different sprinters in the race: Pinehurt dead-warmed for fifth and Barossa completed seventh.
The day's 10 races in general — drove by five Cup races for 2-year-olds — went off securely on a hazy and surprisingly cool 60-degree (15 Celsius) day at the shoreline track north of San Diego.
In the day's last race, Albahr was scratched from the Juvenile Turf after the 2-year-old gelding flipped in the beginning entryway. At first, the group was informed that 2-1 most loved Modern Games likewise was damaged. Following a deferral of a few minutes, it was declared that Modern Games was running for satchel cash just; no betting was permitted.
Current Matches dominated and bettors who had bets on them were to get their cash back. Fans booed as the ponies returned to the show off subsequently. The two ponies are prepared by Charlie Appleby.
Interestingly, each of the 14 races in the two-day big showdowns are being run without race-day medicine permitted.
Baffert was permitted to enter ponies, yet the occasion's cash driving coach needed to meet specific conditions, including stricter out-of-contest testing of his ponies and more noteworthy security at his animal dwellingplace. He consented to the additional investigation and was needed to pay for it out of his own pocket.
Baffert was prohibited by Churchill Downs for the 2022 and 2023 Kentucky Derbies after Medina Spirit completed first this year and afterward bombed a post-race drug test. The prescription included is permitted in Kentucky, however not on race day. Baffert's ponies have had five bombed drug tests somewhat recently.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission presently can't seem to make a last decision on Medina Spirit.
"The Derby's far off thus right now my center was simply getting him here," Baffert said of Corniche. "We'll perceive how it works out. There's still a great deal of things continuing. A great deal can occur among sometimes."
Winning proprietor Peter Fluor said he and accomplice K.C. Weiner of Speedway Stables never viewed as moving Corniche to an alternate coach. A portion of Baffert's customers have left him in the wake of his legitimate hardships.
"Sway's working really hard," Fluor said. "We're somewhat partaking in the second and not too far off we'll zero in on that."
Mentor Christophe Clement snapped a 0-for-41 droop in the Breeders' Cup when 9-2 shot Pizza Bianca went from last to first in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Possessed and reared by big name culinary expert Bobby Flay, Pizza Bianca ran a mile in 1:36.08 and paid $21.80 to win. Rider Jose Ortiz had a beginning and-stop trip, stringing the 2-year-old filly through limited openings made by the traffic from a 14-horse field.
Dashing resumes Saturday with nine Cup races, topped by the $6 million Classic.
Rider Irad Ortiz Jr. furthermore, coach Wesley Ward proceeded with their predominance of the Juvenile Turf Sprint as Twilight Gleaming drove each progression in the initial Cup race of the day.
Ortiz and Ward joined for their third consecutive triumph in the $1 million race. It was the twelfth Cup win for Ortiz and fifth for Ward.
Ward had two different sprinters in the 12-horse field, including the 9-5 top pick and already undefeated Averly Jane, who completed fifth.
All things considered, it was Twilight Gleaming who assumed responsibility and held off Go Bears Go by a half-length. Kaufymaker, additionally prepared by Ward, was third.
The filly, running against foals for the third consecutive time, improved to three successes in five beginnings for Stonestreet Stables' Barbara Banke, as of late named the main lady seat of the Breeders' Cup directorate.
Dusk Gleaming paid $12.40 to win and ran five furlongs in 56.24 seconds.
Reverberation Zulu turned into the early top choice for the 2022 Kentucky Oaks with a prevailing success in the $2 million Juvenile Fillies.
Reverberation Zulu assumed responsibility out of the beginning entryway and was rarely compromised. She moved to a 5 1/4-length triumph over Juju's Map. She ran 1/16 miles in 1:42.24 and $3.60 to win as the 4-5 top choice.
Reverberation Zulu improved to 4 for 4 this year while giving Rosario his fourteenth Cup win.
For mentor Steve Asmussen, the triumph was his eighth in the Cup. He prepared Echo Zulu's sire, Gun Runner, to a triumph in the Classic four years prior at Del Mar.
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