Baffert's Top 3-Year-Olds Work at Santa Anita Park

Barnes, Rodriguez, Gaming, and champion Citizen Bull all worked for trainer Bob Baffert March 23 at Santa Anita Park. Also on the tab was Vodka With a Twist, last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) runner-up, who is preparing to make her 3-year-old debut in the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) April 5. Working together in company, Barnes was credited with a five-furlong drill in 1:00 while Rodriguez was clocked for six furlongs in 1:13 1/5. Gaming fired a bullet when drilling four furlongs in :46 4/5. Citizen Bull worked five furlongs in :59 4/5, which was the third-fastest of 89 moves at the distance. Vodka With a Twist drilled five furlongs in 1:02 2/5 for trainer Phil D'Amato. It was her ninth work since Jan. 29. By Thousand Words, Vodka With a Twist hasn't started since finishing third in the Starlet Stakes (G2) at Los Alamitos Race Course Dec. 7. Returning to the work tab was grade 2 winner Mi Hermano Ramon for trainer Mark Glatt. The 5-year-old Creative Cause gelding, who finished fifth in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1T) March 1 at Santa Anita, drilled four furlongs in :48 3/5 on the synthetic training track. Working for trainer Richard Baltas was Scipio, winner of the Baffle Stakes for 3-year-olds sprinting about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course Feb. 16. The son of Caravaggio worked five furlongs in 1:00 2/5. He is slated to make his next start in the Transylvania Stakes (G3T) going 1 1/16 miles on turf at Keeneland April 4.