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Bob Baffert's two Derby hopes, Indian Express and Kafwain, worked in company Tuesday (Apr. 29) morning, stopping the clock in :59 3/5 for five furlongs. However, Kafwain apparently was injured in the drill and will not run in the Derby. "He's out," Baffert said. "He didn't cool out well and we started to look at what happened. We don't know exactly what's wrong, but it looks like a check ligament in his right front. We'll have him X-rayed to find out." The defection of Kafwain leaves Baffert with just one Derby hope. At one point, he had three prospects, but announced this morning that Senor Swinger, who has been a Derby possible all week, will go in Friday's Crown Royal American Turf (GIII). Indian Express and Kafwain worked as a team, coming out right after the break, and Indian Express stayed a neck or head in front the whole trip. Baffert was especially pleased with the way Indian Express drilled. The colt was on the inside the whole way with exercise rider Dana Barnes aboard. He went along in splits of :12 1/5, :24, :35 4/5 and :47 4/5, and galloped out six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. "That was his best work ever," Baffert said. "I'm getting kinda excited about him. He was in front the whole way, but that's his style. He looked good out there." Indian Express is by Indian Charlie, who ran third in the 1998 Kentucky Derby. The Utah-bred began his racing career in Panama, and Baffert purchased the colt privately late last year for $150,000. Indian Express, owned by Phil Chess, came into the Baffert barn in December. "He's improved a lot since we first got him, and this work showed me he's improved since the Santa Anita Derby (GI)," Baffert said. "I like what I see in him, and I feel good about leading him up there. He's only got one style, so we'll send him to the front and he'll go as far as he can." The Santa Anita Derby on April 5 was Indian Express's first try around two turns, and the colt ran gamely along the rail, dropping a head decision to Buddy Gil. Tyler Baze, who was aboard in that race, has the call for his first Derby mount. Kafwain ran in the shadow of stablemate Vindication all last year, and finished second to the champion colt in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI). This year he had won the San Vicente (GII) and run second in the Louisiana Derby (GII) before finishing third in the Santa Anita Derby. He was to have been ridden in the Kentucky Derby by Pat Valenzuela, who has not had a Derby mount since he finished 15th aboard Union City in 1993.
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4.27.2003 - Senior Swinger Video Workout
4.24.2003 - Senior Swinger Video Workout
Senor Swinger News: Meet Empire Maker, Your Derby Favorite du Jour
Senor Swinger News: Are Empire Maker, Senor Swinger And Indy Dancer The Real Deal Or Fool's Gold?
Senor Swinger News: Empire Maker Favored, Trust N Luck The One To Beat In $1 Million Florida Derby
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Finished fifth, beaten a touch over nine lengths by Empire Maker, in the Wood Memorial Stakes (GI) at Aqueduct on Apr. 12
Finished fifth, beaten more than 20 lengths by Empire Maker, in the Mar. 15 Florida Derby (GI) at Gulfstream Park
Dead-heated for the win with the highly-regarded colt Ten Cents A Shine in a entry-level allowance race at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 31 |
Broke his maiden at first-asking by 6 1/2-lengths going a mile and a sixteenth on Dec. 4 at Hawthorne |
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Born: April 16, 2000
Dosage Index: 1.15
The gray or roan colt Senor Swinger is by the champion El Prado, a fashionably-bred son of Sadler's Wells, who was the leading North American sire (by offspring's earnings) in 2002. El Prado is the sire of 36 stakes winners at this writing from eight crops including millionaires Medaglia d'Oro and Nite Dreamer; the hard-knocking, graded stakes winner Chindi; the Grade III stakes winner El Cielo and the listed stakes winner The Happy Hopper. Senor Swinger is out of the Kris S. mare Smmoth Swinger, who has also foaled the minor stakes placed runners Swing To The Beat and Romantic Notions. As a broodmare sire, Kris S. is the sire of 198 producing daughters and 28 stakes winners including millionaires Ladies Din and War Chant, as well as Nonproductiveasset, Innit (Ire), Meetyouatthebrig, Bayou The Moon and Double Cat. Senor Swinger is inbred to the extremely influential sire-of-sires Turn-to, the sire of Best Turn (sire of Cox's Ridge); Cyane (sire of Smarten); Hail to Reason (sire of Roberto) and Sir Gaylord (sire of Sir Ivor). Senor Swinger broke his maiden at first asking around two turns going a mile and a sixteenth at Hawthorne, and he's bred, top and bottom, to run all day. He won't have a problem staying a mile and a quarter, and beyond.
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