Baffert trio exit CashCall Futurity in good shape

Liaison is but one of Bob Baffert’s potential stars of 2012 (Benoit Photos)

Juvenile Liaison earned his third straight win on Saturday while giving his
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a record sixth victory when taking the Grade 1
CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park by a gutsy neck.

“He’s doing really well,” Baffert said by telephone from his Santa
Anita base Sunday morning.

Liaison hopes to follow in the giant footsteps of Baffert’s five previous winners
— Real
Quiet, Captain Steve, Point Given, Pioneerof the Nile and Lookin at Lucky — who
collectively went on to earn a Horse of the Year title and four Eclipse Awards
while capturing one Kentucky Derby, three Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes
and
one Group 1 Dubai World Cup, among others.

Baffert said Liaison, a son of Indian Charlie owned by Arnold Zetcher, would
probably resurface at Santa Anita.

“Nothing definite yet,” the horseman said. “We all need to sit down and see how
he’s doing. He’s on the Derby program.”