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[email protected] Medina Spirit, a game second as the 9-10 favorite behind Rock Your World in In This Issue: the Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (Grade 1) Saturday Pletcher Winners Staying At Keeneland at Santa Anita, came out of the race in good order and will attempt to give Bob Juan Carlos Diaz Jr. Returns to Gulfstream Baffert his seventh victory in the Kentucky Derby pre- sented by Woodford Champion Filly Gamine Wins Las Flores Reserve (G1) on May 1. Medina Spirit earned 40 Kentucky Derby Leaderboard qualifying points for the Derby with his second- place finish in the Santa NYRA CARES: Benefits Backstretch Families Anita Derby, increasing his total to 74 and a No. 9 Gulfstream Park Charts ranking, which is enough to guarantee a spot among the 20 allocated for a starting Track Results & Entries gate slot in the Run for the Roses. Florida Stallion Progeny List “[Medina Spirit] ran a game race like he always does,” Baffert said of the Florida Breeders’ List $35,000 bargain son of Protonico out of Wire to Wire Business Place Mongolian Changa, by Florida-bred sire Brilliant Florida-bred Medina Spirit/SANTA ANITA PHOTO Speed bred in Florida by Featured Advertisers Gail Rice. “The winner was into the Kentucky Derby San Felipe and Santa Anita very impressive, but our off of two second-place Derby, both to Free House.