Baffert enters four in San Pasqual

Two months out from the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap, Hall of Fame trainer

Bob Baffert already has stable star Game On Dude penciled in for the prestigious

1 1/4-mile test. While that one awaits the Grade 2 San Antonio on February 3,

four of his stablemates will try to prove their Big 'Cap credentials in

Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000

San

Pasqual over 1 1/16 miles.

The most accomplished of the Baffert-trained quartet is Coil, whose Grade 1

wins include the 2011 Haskell Invitational and the 2012 Santa Anita Sprint

Championship. Coil completed last season on a slight downturn, finishing seventh

over a speed-friendly track in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint and third

finishing third behind Stay Thirsty and Groupie Doll in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile.

Jaycito is winless in stakes company since taking the Grade 1 Norfolk in

October 2010, but has posted two solid allowance wins over the past six months,

including a 2 1/4-length decision at Hollywood Park December 1.

Bank the Eight, a six-year-old who has raced only 11 times, was a dynamite 5

3/4-length allowance winner at Hollywood two back, but has been beaten soundly

in two other starts for Baffert following a 15-month layoff. The return to dirt

might help the former Pimlico stakes winner.

Baffert will also send out the speedy Hoorayforhollywood, a multiple

stakes-placed son of Storm Cat who was most recently third in the Michael G.

Schaefer Memorial Mile at Hoosier Park in October.

Also expected to show early foot in the San Pasqual is Ultimate Eagle, a

blowout winner of last year's Grade 2 Strub who later faltered as the favorite

in the Big 'Cap. The Grade 1 turf winner returned from a layoff of more than

eight months in the November 23 Grade 2 Citation Handicap, where he finished a

solid second to Data Link.

Others of note in the San Pasqual are multiple Grade 2 veteran Tres Borrachos,

the 2012 San Pasqual runner-up who was most recently second to Jaycito in the

aforementioned Hollywood allowance, and multiple stakes winner John Scott, a

last-out fourth in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile after a troubled trip.

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