Spendthrift Farm LLC’s Callback (Street Sense) played second fiddle to
Callback took command out of the gate and proceeded to set splits of :22 4/5
Callback never flinched, maintaining her momentum into the stretch and
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“I was just cruising all
the way around there,” Garcia said. “I asked her a little going into the far turn and then
again when Light the City came back at us, she took off. There was no way they
were going to go by us.
“I don’t see why stretching out further would be any problem; she’s a good
filly. She can do anything you want.”
“She broke really good from the gate. I was right behind the speed and I
followed the winner. I had a perfect trip, but at the three-eighths (marker), I
was done. I didn’t have enough horse,” explained Maybellene’s rider, Rafael
Bejarano.
Now boasting $245,450 in career earnings, Callback has run up a 4-2-1-0
scorecard. She didn’t show much when ninth in her debut last November at Santa
Anita but then traveled to Los Alamitos to break her maiden by 2 1/2 lengths one
month later. Making her sophomore bow on January 3 in the 6 1/2-furlong Santa
Ynez S. (G2), the bay lass proved second best on that occasion but successfully
passed the stretch-out test here.
“We’ve always been pretty high on her. They were high on her when they sent her
in. I wanted to run one-two. My other filly (Maybellene), she just didn’t kick
today,” Baffert remarked.
“You train them for two turns; I knew she was going to be
forwardly placed and she worked really well coming into it,” he continued. “I thought her last
race was really good. She was a little bit intimidated down in the one hole and
with the blinkers. The first time I ran her, she was the heavy favorite, she
didn’t run well, but I think she bounced.
“It was nice to get a win for (Spendthrift Farm owner B.) Wayne Hughes. He
couldn’t make it today. He was ill with a little cold (in Malibu).”
In addition to padding her resume Callback also earned 10 points toward a
starting berth in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 2 at Churchill Downs. She now
owns 14 total points, thanks in part to the Santa Ynez runner-up effort, as the
Las Virgenes was the final race in the prep season portion on the “Road to the
Kentucky Oaks” schedule and offered up 10-4-2-1 points to the top four
finishers.
When asked what he has planned for Callback now, Baffert quipped, “Yeah (the
$400,000 Santa Anita Oaks [G1] going 1 1/16 miles on April 4) would be
considered, unless the earth moves or something.”
Bred in Kentucky by Vincent Colbert, Callback was purchased by Spendthrift
for $375,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected yearling. She is out of the
unraced Quickest (Forest Wildcat), making her a half-sister to dual stakes
winner Defy Gravity (Bandini) and stakes-placed Miss Super Quick (Rock Hard
Ten). Quickest is herself a half-sister to Kentucky Derby (G1) hero Super Saver
(Maria’s Mon) and Grade 3 scorer Brethren (Distorted Humor).
Callback’s third dam is Grade 3 victress Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector) — from
whom is descended Grade 1 winners Girolamo (A.P. Indy), Imagining (Giant’s
Causeway) and Bluegrass Cat (Storm Cat), just to name a few — while her fifth
dam is champion Numbered Account (Buckpasser).
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