Cool Intentions

With plenty of tasty birthday cake in the offing, a cadre of newly-minted 3-year-old colts have blown out their candles and are ready for stakes action across four tracks on Saturday. Leading the charge at Santa Anita is the GII San Vicente Stakes, which is the annual renewal of the seven furlong dirt race. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has won 13 prior editions, including last year with Muth (Good Magic). In customary fashion, the Hall of Famer enters a pair of runners in Barnes (Into Mischief) and Romanesque...

4th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 11-16, 2yo, 1m, 1:39.74, ft, 4 lengths. COOL INTENTIONS (c, 2, Authentic--Intentional Cry, by Street Cry {Ire}) was sent off as the 13-10 chalk to improve for a debut second going six furlongs of the Gulfstream main track Oct. 19 and ran away from his rivals in the final sixteenth of a mile to become the 19th winner for his first-crop sire (by Into Mischief). Away without incident from his low draw while stretching out to the one-turn mile for the first time, the $285,000 Keeneland September...