Rampellini: Oaklawn horses to watch for week of April 20, 2020
MERNEITH
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Last race: April 19, 10th
Finish: 1st by 10 1/4 lengths
Beyer: 91
She defeated older rivals in a maiden special weight over six furlongs, covering the distance in a quick 1:09.96. She finished full of run on the cutback from two turns in a race that was her first on a wet track and first outside of Southern California. Merneith is a 3-year-old daughter of American Pharoah and the stakes-winning mare Flattermewithroses.
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POINT OF HONOR
Trainer: George Weaver
Last race: April 18, 10th
Finish: 3rd by 2 1/4
Beyer: 95
She can be significantly closer to the pace than she found herself in the Apple Blossom, when she broke last of all in the field of 14. She trailed by double digits and put in a big run for third behind a pair of Grade 1 winners in Ce Ce and Ollie’s Candy. Point of Honor is a Grade 2 winner and a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Wicked Whisper.
TWO THIRTY FIVE
Trainer: Richard Baltas
Last race: April 19, 9th
Finish: 1st by 1/2
Beyer: 94
He was a sharp winner on the cutback from a mile and a quarter to a mile and a sixteenth, defeating three graded stakes winners in the optional $75,000 claiming route. It was his first start outside of Southern California. Two Thirty Five’s dam, A Footstep Away, is a half-sister to $1.8 million earner Lu Ravi.