Lookin at Lucky doing well following Futurity win

Lookin at Lucky made winning the Futurity look easy (Benoit Photos)

Trainer Bob Baffert reported Sunday from Santa Anita that LOOKIN AT LUCKY
(Smart Strike), winner of the CashCall Futurity (G1) at Hollywood Park Saturday,
and a large supporting cast of rising two-year-old stars all returned in good
shape.

“They all looked great,” said Baffert after recording the first Hollywood
Park quadruple of his career with Lookin At Lucky and three other two-year-old
colts. “We exposed some real stars.”

Baffert began his stellar day when sending out Quiet Invader (Songandaprayer)
to capture the 2ND race and saw his next winner, Tiz Chrome (Tiznow), dominate
the Stuka S. by four lengths. Clutch Player (Malibu Moon) rounded out the
silver-haired conditioner’s first three when winning the 7TH race by four
lengths, and Lookin at Lucky added the finishing touch in the CashCall Futurity.

“It feels good to see a nice horse become a millionaire,” Baffert said after
a record fifth victory in the Grade 1 test.

Lookin at Lucky entered the CashCall Futurity having suffered his only loss
when a troubled head second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) on November 7. In
winning the 1 1/16-mile test, the bay colt accomplished something none of
Baffert’s other four Futurity winners — Real Quiet, Captain Steve, Point Given
and Pioneerof the Nile — did. He became only the fourth horse to sweep the
three biggest two-year-old stakes on the Southern California calendar: the Del
Mar Futurity (G1), the Norfolk S. (G1) at Santa Anita and the CashCall Futurity.