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Nothing Like You, a Malibu Moon filly, proven profitable the Desi Arnaz
Coach Bob Baffert made it seven consecutive $200,500 Starlet (G2) victories as 2-1 third selection Nothing Like You managed all through Saturday at Los Alamitos.
Stretched again to 2 turns a month after she had rallied to win by a nostril going seven furlongs within the Desi Arnaz Stakes at Del Mar, the 2-year-old Malibu Moon filly established the lead from the within instantly underneath jockey Juan Hernandez and was by no means severely challenged on her option to a 5¼-length victory.
Owned by a partnership that features Georgia Antley Hunt, Jeff Giglio, and John Rogitz, Nothing Like You has received 3 times in a row after ending second, eighth, and fourth within the first three begins of her profession.
Out of the Brother Derek mare Miss Derek, Nothing Like You accomplished the 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.78 and the $120,000 payday pushed her bankroll to $237,160. She paid $6.20, $3.60 and $2.40.
Though the end result was no shock, Baffert did not foresee the Starlet would play out the best way it did.
“I believed my different filly (Grazia, the 9-5 second selection who completed final within the area of six) can be on the lead,” he stated. “(Nothing Like You) was fairly contemporary right now as a result of I would backed off on her a bit as a result of I’d simply run her at Del Mar.
“(Hernandez) stated she popped out of there and he stated no one needed the lead so he simply took it. As soon as I noticed her on the bottom with that lengthy stride you possibly can inform she was in charge of the race.
“It took this filly some time to come back round. She wasn’t actual fast. We knew as soon as we stretched her out that may be her recreation. The longer the higher for her.”
Total, the win added to Baffert’s document complete within the Starlet. He now has 10, together with the trio he received at Hollywood Park when the race was run because the Hollywood Starlet. His victories in Inglewood, Calif. got here with Wonderful Assembly (1998), Habibti (2001), and Streaming (2013).
The Starlet win was the second in three years for Hernandez, who additionally scored with Eda in 2021.
“She’s bettering with each race and distance is what she has at all times needed,” stated Hernandez after his document fifteenth daytime Thoroughbred stakes win at Los Alamitos. “She relaxed completely. I let her go on the head of the stretch and he or she took off.”
Nice Forty Eight, who was second underneath the wire because the longest shot within the area at 29-1, was disqualified and positioned fourth for shifting out underneath left handed encouragement from apprentice jockey J.G. Torrealba and impeding Chatalas, the 9-5 favourite, with about an eighth of a mile to go.
Because of the incident, the maiden Flynn’s Probability, a 17-1 shot, was elevated to second and Chatalas was moved as much as third.
Bred in Kentucky by Notch Hill Farm, Wolverton Mountain Farm, and Spendthrift Stallions LLC, Nothing Like You is out of the Brother Derek mare Miss Derek. He bought for $190,000 to John Rogitz on the OBS Spring Two-12 months-Olds in Coaching Sale in April. Wildheart Thoroughbreds was the consignor.
Baffert and Hernandez additionally teamed to win the day’s second race with closely favored Elwood Blues.
Though he needed to accept third cash within the Starlit with Chatalas, coach Mark Glatt tripled, scoring with Tiff With Jimmy within the third, Issa Court docket within the sixth and Prime Gun Tommy within the eighth.
