Wednesday, January 07, 2015

2014 Sham Stakes (gr. III) Entries

The entries for Saturday's $100,000 Sham Stakes (gr. III) at Santa Anita Park have been released! The one-mile race drew a field of eight, including three colts from the barn of Peter Miller. Here is the field:
#/Horse/Jockey/Trainer
1 St. Joe Bay/Martin Pedroza/Peter Miller
2 Pioneerof the West/Corey Nakatani/Mark Casse
3 Rockinatten/Rafael Bejarano/Doug O'Neill
4 Unblunted/Joe Talamo/Michael McCarthy
5 Rock Shandy/Victor Espinoza/Peter Miller
6 Papacoolpapacool/Fernando Perez/Jeff Mullins
7 Calculator/Elvis Trujillo/Peter Miller
8 Hero Ten All/Tyler Baze/Jeff Mullins
Somewhat surprisingly, the favorite is expected to be a horse that has never one a race, that being Calculator. The Florida-bred son of In Summation missed the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) with a minor injury, but previously ran second to the well-regarded American Pharoah in both the FrontRunner Stakes (gr. I) and Del Mar Futurity (gr. I), stamping himself as a colt of very high quality. Calculator has been training very well for this race, most recently breezing six furlongs in 1:11 3/5 at Santa Anita on January 4th.

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