Pedigree Query

With 59 days and counting till this years Kentucky Derby, here's another 85 point give away to the cream of the 3YO crop on the West Coast (sans Nyquist:>) Here's the entries and PP's for Saturday at SA. Some serious race horses in this field! TJ

7th Race. (C7) The 80th Running of
San Felipe Stakes (Grade II)
Purse $400,000 Guaranteed One Mile And One Sixteenth
FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS.
1 UNCLE LINO (L) '13 C 120 Perez, F Mansor, Purple Shamrock Racing or Sherlock Gary Sherlock
2 DANZING CANDY (L) '13 C 120 Smith, M Halo Farms, Bashor or Bashor Clifford W. Sise, Jr.
3 MOR SPIRIT (L) '13 R 124 Stevens, G Michael Lund Petersen Bob Baffert
4 CUPID (L) '13 C 120 Garcia, M Tabor & Magnier & Smith Bob Baffert
5 I WILL SCORE (L) '13 C 120 Bejarano, R Hans Poetsch Jerry Hollendorfer
6 SMOKEY IMAGE (L) '13 C 120 Espinoza, V Irvin Racing Stable Carla Gaines
7 EXAGGERATOR (L) '13 C 122 Desormeaux, K Big Chief Racing, LLC, Head of Plains Partners LLC, Rocker ORanch JKeithDesormeaux

Click on Cupid: http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/briswatc ... ummary.htm

Smokey Image
Danzing Candy
Mor Spirit
Exaggerator

Smokey Image
Cupid
Mor Spirit
Exaggerator

Mor Spirit
Exaggerator
Smokey Image
Danzing Candy

Cupid has scratched - will go to Rebel.

Here's the finish:
Danzing Candy
Mor Spirit
Exaggerator
Uncle Lino

Hmm... I am not convinced a son of Twirling Candy out of a Songandaprayer mare is a 10 furlong horse, especially with his style. But a nice win for him.
Bob has himself a grinder in Mor Spirit.

Cree wrote:Hmm... I am not convinced a son of Twirling Candy out of a Songandaprayer mare is a 10 furlong horse, especially with his style. But a nice win for him.
Bob has himself a grinder in Mor Spirit.

Hi Cree,
It does seem that way....but he sure handled the dirt pretty well considering he leans toward turf racing...being out of a 1/2 sister to hard knocking 4.3+ million dollar turf earner, Better Talk Now. TJ

I did not look at his female family, thanks for pointing that out.
I think moving forward I am still leaning towards Mor Spirit being the "top" California horse. There's just something about him.

Here's the replay:
http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?tra ... ountry=USA