Bargain buy Just Google Me dominates Barretts Debutante

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – With the right search tool, one can find almost anything on the Internet. With the right advice at a horse auction, one can find a future stakes winner for only $17,000.

That is how much owner Chad Calvert spent for Just Google Me, who ran like an odds-on favorite is expected to run Saturday at Los Alamitos.

The 2-year-old filly crushed the $100,000 Barretts Debutante.

Just Google Me won the sprint stakes by 9 1/2 lengths under Edwin Maldonado, leaving runner-up Sambamzajammin in her wake.

First-time starter Miss Injustice was up for third.

Scott Rollins trains Just Google Me, a Stormin Fever filly purchased as a yearling at the 2014 Barretts October sale. She was in the sale as part of a dispersal by her breeder, Golden Eagle Farm, and it was Rollins who suggested she was a bargain at $17,000.

“She was a little small, but conformation-wise she was perfect,” Rollins said. “There were 25 or 30 at the sale we really liked; she was in the top four.”

The filly won her career debut at Los Alamitos in July, placed in two Cal-bred stakes at Del Mar, and cruised Saturday when she made her fourth start in the Barretts.

Maldonado allowed Just Google Me to lag off the blistering pace of 21.51 and 44.82 seconds, rallied wide into the lane and rolled home in 1:17.51 for 6 1/2 furlongs. She returned $3.60.

“I knew the extra sixteenth of a mile was going to help her and it set up perfectly,” Maldonado said. “She’s only going to get better as the distances get longer.”

Just Google Me will get that chance racing seven furlongs in her next start. She is expected to run Oct. 29 at Del Mar, opening day of the fall meet, in the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies.

Bettors wagered $100,752 into the Saturday pick six, chasing a $21,974 carryover. There was one winning ticket that returned $74,854.