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Baffert will seek fourth straight Haskell with Power Broker

Last updated: 7/23/13 5:38 PM

Trainer Bob Baffert will look to continue his stranglehold upon Monmouth

Park's signature race when he sends out Power Broker in Sunday's $1 million

Haskell Invitational. The Hall of Fame trainer has saddled a record six winners,

including the last three runnings, of the Grade 1 event.

Baffert announced the colt's participation via twitter following a workout on

Del Mar's Polytrack Tuesday.

"Power Broker going to Haskell," Baffert tweeted after Power Broker traveled

five furlongs in 1:00 4/5. "Worked great today."

Baffert has won the last three editions of the 1 1/8-mile Haskell with

Paynter, Coil and Lookin At Lucky.

Winner of the Grade 1 FrontRunner at Santa Anita last October, Power Broker

concluded his two-year-old campaign with a fifth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

The chestnut son of Pulpit was no factor when making a belated three-year-old

debut, finishing a well-beaten fifth in the Santa Anita Derby, but rebounded to

take an entry-level allowance at Churchill Downs on May 10.

Power Broker returned to stakes competition with a gusto last time out,

drawing off to a 3 3/4-length score in the June 8 Easy Goer at Belmont Park. The

Gary and Mary West color bearer registered a career-best 102 BRIS Speed rating.

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