Santa Anita Derby Hopefuls Tune Up

Bolo (Temple City), third in the GII San Felipe S., and Ocho Ocho Ocho (Street Sense), who suffered his first loss when eighth in that Mar. 7 race, both tuned up for the Apr. 4 GI Santa Anita Derby in Arcadia recently. 

Bolo, who was making his first dirt appearance in the San Felipe, worked four furlongs in :47.80. 

“We were very pleased,” Carla Gaines, who trains Bolo for Golden Pegasus Racing, Inc. and Earle Mack, said of her charge’s effort in the San Felipe. “It was sort of an unknown [racing on dirt for the first time], and he had missed some training and didn’t go into the race exactly as we would have liked.” Gaines added with a chuckle, “But he ran really well in spite of me.” 

D P Racing’s Ocho Ocho Ocho worked five furlongs Wednesday in 1:00.80. 

“He worked really good,” reported trainer Jim Cassidy. 

The colt suffered cuts to his leg in the San Felipe, but is completely mended. 

“His cuts are healed; he’s better than he was last week,” Cassidy added. “He was kind of quiet last week.”