Baffert Filly Looks to Keep Her ‘Cool’

Pegram, Watson and Weitman’s Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy) looks to add to conditioner Bob Baffert’s already record six wins in the GII Sorrento S. Wednesday evening at Del Mar. The $160,000 KEESEP yearling splashed home by 4 1/2 lengths in the slop here July 19, good for a stand-out 95 Beyer Speed Figure. Baffert’s last Sorrento win came in 2012 with these connections’ Executiveprivilege (First Samurai). Among the expected favorite’s challengers is Big Chief Racing’s Right There (Eskendereya). Second as the chalk at Santa Anita May 21, the Keith Desormeaux pupil earned her diploma the hard way, catapulting past her rivals after a no-cover journey to take that venue’s Landaluce S. by 4 3/4 lengths June 21. The always dangerous Hronis Racing/John Sadler axis will be represented by Uptown Twirl (Twirling Candy), who justified 1-2 favoritism to score in a game effort first up in Arcadia June 18. The bay brought $630,000 at OBS March after a :10 flat breeze. Undisputed (Street Boss) was also a pricey OBSMAR grad, having gone for $450,000 after a :9 4/5 move. She was green but good donning cap and gown at Los Alamitos Racecourse July 4, and was flattered when the runner-up from that heat returned to defeat the second-place finisher from Pretty N Cool’s debut by 5 1/4 lengths here Sunday. One True Kiss (Warrior’s Reward) showed the ability to rate in her successful first try for Peter Miller at Los Al July 12, and was also flattered by the runner-up from that race Land Over Sea (Bellamy Road), who was an impressive first turf winner here July 29. Land Over Sea’s red-hot connections–Paul Reddam and Doug O’Neill–send out Gomo (Uncle Mo), who also went turf-to-dirt for a convincing victory at Santa Anita June 25. They took this race’s corresponding event for males–Saturday’s GII Best Pal S.–with Nyquist (Uncle Mo).