Bob Baffert’s unbeaten Mastery makes 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s San Felipe
Recent graded stakes winners Gormley, Mastery and Iliad lead a field of seven 3-year-olds in Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
The 1 1/16-mile Kentucky Derby prep race will be televised live on TVG. Post time is 5:04 p.m. EST.
The San Felipe, worth 50 Derby points to the winner, is a steppingstone to the Grade 1, $1 million Santa Anita Derby to be contested in April.
Mastery, a Bob Baffert trainee making his 3-year-old debut, is the 6-5 favorite and will be ridden by Mike Smith. Mastery has won all three of his career races, most recently the Grade 1 Cash Call Futurity at Los Alamitos on Dec. 10.
San Felipe Stakes field with morning-line odds
PP | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Odds |
1 | Term of Art | Baze | O’Neill | 20-1 |
2 | Vending Machine | Arroyo, Jr. | Miller | 20-1 |
3 | Ann Arbor Eddie | Gutierrez | O’Neill | 8-1 |
4 | Mastery | Smith | Baffert | 6-5 |
5 | Gormley | Espinoza | Shirreffs | 9-5 |
6 | Iliad | Prat | O’Neill | 5-2 |
7 | Bluegrass Envy | Radosevich | Creque | 50-1 |
This story was originally published March 10, 2017 at 6:31 PM with the headline "Bob Baffert’s unbeaten Mastery makes 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s San Felipe."