Carving won the Real Quiet as Baffert won his eighth edition of the race
The 2-year-old colt, Carving, trained by Bob Baffert for his wife and Olympic gold medalist skier Bode Miller, brought home the $100,000 Real Quiet Stakes for his connections at Betfair Hollywood Park on 10 November, 2012.
It was Bob Baffert’s second victory in the Real Quiet Stakes in two consecutive years, and became the first horseman to win the juvenile affair for the record eighth time, who won it last year with, Liaison, who eventually went on to win the Grade 1 CashCall
Futurity Stakes.
Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm, Carving, the juvenile colt of Any Given Saturday, out of Giant Causeway’s mare In Seconds, posted a narrow half length victory over Fury Capcori, and turned in the 1 1/16 mile distance in 1 minute and 46.04 seconds under
jockey Martin Garcia over the cushion track.
Carving bounced back from a fourth place finish in the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes that is also run over a distance of 1 1/16 miles. He finished fourth to stable mate and winner, Power Broker, as he went on to defeat Know More in second and Capo Bastone in
third on 29 September.
The Real Quiet Stakes proved to be Carving’s third victory in four starts, as he broke his maiden claimer at first asking over 5 furlongs at Del Mar, and went on to win the C. B. Afflerbaugh Stakes at Fairplex Park over seven furlongs on 12 September.
Baffert is now pointing Carving toward the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity on 15 December, 2012, which has a guaranteed purse of $750,000, a race that Baffert has already won six times.
"Hopefully, he will go,'' said Baffert. "I'm going to run as many as I can in that. I'll try to load the gate up. I have a lot of nice ones. (Carving) has been a fun horse because he always runs better than he trains. Everyone in the barn has outworked him.
He's been a real surprise to me.''
Carving was sent as the 11 to 10 favourite to win the Real Quiet Stakes, and he did it handsomely over the 9 to 2 fourth choice, Fury Capcori, and will be a threat in the CashCall as well.
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