Chasing Yesterday targeting Starlet

DEL MAR, Calif. – Chasing Yesterday doesn’t look like American Pharoah, doesn’t move like American Pharoah, and won’t have the same story arc as her older half-brother. But being the younger half-sister to the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years, “she’s royalty,” said her trainer, Bob Baffert.

Her residual value is assured, and she’s doing pretty well on the track, too. She won for the third time in four starts in the Desi Arnaz Stakes here at Del Mar on Monday, and now will shoot for her first graded stakes win in the Grade 1 Starlet at Los Alamitos on Dec. 8, Baffert said.

Baffert trains Chasing Yesterday, a chestnut 2-year-old daughter of Tapit, for the Summer Wind Equine of Jane Lyon. Baffert only has two homebreds currently for Lyon, as she sells most of her stock, but Baffert has two top-class runners in his barn that Lyon bred and were purchased by other clients of Baffert’s.

Lyon is the breeder of Game Winner, the unbeaten winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile who is certain to win the Eclipse Award as champion male 2-year-old, and she also bred McKinzie, a top 3-year-old who last raced in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and will remain in training at age 4.