"You know what's great?"
"It's great to see this place packed. Look, everybody came out. They'll come out to see a good horse and everybody was on the apron for this one. And they saw a great horse race."
"My horse ran really good. I was in front on the stretch for a couple of jumps and then it was just back and forth between Nysos and my horse. ... He w"
Opening day at Santa Anita was delayed two days by heavy rain. Bob Baffert captured three stakes on the card, winning the Grade 2 Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes and two Grade 1 races, the La Brea with Usha and the Malibu with Goal Oriented. Nysos and Nevada Beach ran one-two in the Pincay, with Nysos edging Nevada Beach by a head under Flavien Prat over Juan Hernandez. Nysos entered as the 1-5 favorite, a Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile champion with one loss in seven starts. The announced crowd was 41,962, the largest Santa Anita opening day since 2016. Nevada Beach is a 3-year-old Goodwood Stakes winner, and the finish echoed the earlier Dirt Mile rivalry.
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