Superior racehorses are capable of outrunning their pedigrees, but El Gato Malo will have to earn his way into that category if he has any pretensions of staying 1 1/4 miles on the first Saturday in May. His sire, the brilliantly fast El Corredor, never ran past a mile. He scored his most notable victories at that distance, in the Cigar Mile H. (G1) and consecutive runnings of the Del Mar H. (G2), but also captured the seven-furlong Pat O'Brien H. (G2) in a blazing 1:20 2/5 at Del Mar. An exponent of the Mr.