ARCADIA, Calif. – In just 48 days, Justify has gone from an unstarted maiden to the winner of the Santa Anita Derby, and now he heads to the May 5 Kentucky Derby as the current favorite for the race. There’s potentially room for improvement, too, according to trainer Bob Baffert, who on Sunday morning here at Santa Anita said he had yet to “bear down” on Justify, saying everything to this point has been “done with raw talent.” “I think he’s caught up now,” Baffert said. “He’s doing that all on his own.” Justify got a Beyer Speed Figure of 107 in the Santa Anita Derby, which he won by three lengths over the high-class colt Bolt d’Oro over a track that was fast but dull. “The track is so deep,” Baffert said. Justify and Bolt d’Oro are the only two exiting the Santa Anita Derby who will go to the Kentucky Derby, and both will be among the top choices in the race, if not the first two. Justify has received Beyer Speed Figures of 104, 101, and 107 to begin his career. “He did it pretty impressively yesterday,” Baffert said Sunday. “He's still a little green. In the other races, he had horses with him early. Yesterday, he was by himself.” Jockey Mike Smith said after the race that Justify was looking around as he went down the backstretch, and both Baffert and Smith said that Justify was a bit too keen for their liking during the middle portion of the race. “He was rolling down the backside,” Baffert said. As a result, Baffert said he would use a more severe bit on Justify in the Kentucky Derby to give Smith “more control,” as Baffert put it, for a strong, powerful colt who weighed in at 1,252 pounds before the race Saturday. Baffert said Justify gallops in a ring bit and has been racing with a D bit, but he said he’d switch to a rubber ring bit for the Derby. Baffert said that Justify’s right front shoe was slightly askew after the race but that nothing happened to that foot. “He spread his shoe. We had to take it off after the race,” he said. Baffert said he had yet to decide when Justify would head to Kentucky, saying he had spots reserved on several potential flights but wanted to wait a week to make up his mind. Bolt d’Oro will do all his serious training for the Kentucky Derby at Santa Anita, owner and trainer Mick Ruis said Sunday. He said Bolt d’Oro would most likely have two works locally before departing the Monday of Derby Week. “We’re ready to rock ’n’ roll,” he said. Ruis said Bolt d’Oro emerged from his second-place finish in the Santa Anita Derby in good order, adding that a small, post-race laceration on the back of Bolt d’Oro’s right front heel was minor. “It was like a splinter to your finger. There was no meat taken off,” Ruis said. Ruis was satisfied with the way Bolt d’Oro ran, chasing a loose, front-running horse in Justify. “He had to make an earlier move,” Ruis said. “I think this race put a lot of air in him. We’re good. I’m excited for what he got out of it. I couldn’t be happier. “There won’t be three-quarters in 1:12 in the Derby,” he said, referring to the pace set by Justify. Ruis said he believed Bolt d’Oro would move forward off the Santa Anita Derby, saying he should be set for his best in his third start off the layoff. He thought Bolt d’Oro might have regressed a bit in the Santa Anita Derby owing to a hard comeback race four weeks earlier in the San Felipe against McKinzie. “It probably did take something out of him,” Ruis said. “He got a lot out of the race yesterday and should be good to go May 5.” Instilled Regard, who finished fourth while beaten 10 3/4 lengths, is “not on the Derby trail anymore,” trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday. Instilled Regard won the Lecomte this winter at Fair Grounds. “We’ll probably find a race for him here in California,” said Hollendorfer, who said he thought the pace in the Santa Anita Derby was not conducive to Instilled Regard’s chances. “Do you think a horse can close on those fractions?” he said. :: ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY: Prep races, point standings, replays, and analysis