Bob Baffert
Mike E. Smith
Baoma Corporation
Frederick M. Allor, Michael T. Barnett, Anthony M. Warrender
Drefong |
Gio Ponti | Tale of the Cat |
| Chipeta Springs | ||
| Eltimaas | Ghostzapper | |
| Najecam |
| Sale / Hip / Type | Buyer / Consignor | Price |
|---|---|---|
KEENOV2013Hip 137 | Weanling |
|
$200,000 |
KEESEP2014Hip 611 | Yearling |
|
$450,000 |
A few strides into the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, champion sprinter Drefong dropped jockey Mike Smith to the main track. Even though he was ineligible to win after that point, the colt had an undisputed impact on who won the race.
If not for his gray stablemate's late-season ascension, Baoma Corporation's Drefong would have been the brightest rising star of 2016.
Baoma Corporation's Drefong, the reigning Eclipse Award champion male sprinter, has been cranking his form up over the last month and could make his 2017 debut in the six-furlong, $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1), trainer Bob Baffert said June 29.
The three-furlong breeze in :36 4/5 was nothing groundbreaking--Stellar Wind happily went through the motions under exercise rider Jose Contreras--but it was simply a starting point
With his Eclipse Award for male sprinter awarded Jan. 21, Drefong joins Lost in the Fog (2005), Trinniberg (2012), and Runhappy (2015) as the only 3-year-olds who earned the honor this century.
