Now with Baffert, Masochistic back in training
ARCADIA, Calif. – Masochistic, a multiple stakes-winning sprinter, has resumed training after a summertime rest and is now based with a new trainer, Bob Baffert.
Baffert said last week that Masochistic was at Los Alamitos and would be transferred to Santa Anita in coming weeks.
Masochistic has not raced since finishing 13th in the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes on the Kentucky Derby undercard on May 6, his final start for trainer Ron Ellis. Following that race, Masochistic was given a rest at Taylor Made Farms in Kentucky.
Owned by Will Shamlian and Samantha Siegel, Masochistic finished second in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita, but was later disqualified from the purse because of the presence of a banned steroid. Ellis faces a possible sanction for the positive. The case was heard by Del Mar stewards over the summer, but no decision has been announced.
A 7-year-old, Masochistic has won 8 of 16 starts and earned $857,550.