october 18 - sprint

Defending Sprint champion Midnight Lute stretched his legs Saturday on Santa Anita's Pro-Ride under exercise rider Sarah Cillie. "I'm going to breeze him Monday, but it's going to be very light," trainer Bob Baffert said. "All I can tell you is that he's healthy, his mind is really great. At Del Mar, his mind was not right. He was bad at the gate, he was bad everywhere. Everything is in place right now."

Asked if there would be enough speed to run at for Midnight Lute in the six-furlong Sprint, Baffert said, "The break is important. He needs to break with the field. He's going to be behind, but he needs to break with them, because they're going to outfoot him a ways until he gets in gear."

Baffert said Midnight Lute would run without blinkers in the Sprint.