Gamine will keep to one turn through end of year

ARCADIA, Calif. – Gamine, the beaten favorite in the Kentucky Oaks earlier this month, will return to one-turn racing for the remainder of the year, with the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 7 her next target, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday morning at Santa Anita.

Gamine is back at Santa Anita, where she is galloping daily as part of an easy training schedule exiting the Oaks.

“She’ll run in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, then the La Brea,” Baffert said, referencing a Grade 1 race for 3-year-old fillies usually run on opening day of Santa Anita’s winter meeting in December. “After that she’ll get some time off and then we’ll stretch her out later.”

Both the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and the La Brea are at seven furlongs, the same distance as the Grade 1 Test, which Gamine won on Aug. 8 at Saratoga.

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Baffert said Gamine was “tired” coming out of the Oaks.

“She came out of the race well, but she got a little light on me,” he said. “I went easy with her and she’s got her weight back. I still think she’ll stretch out. Seven-eighths, she’s pretty lethal. But the Breeders’ Cup will be a tough race.”