Tenma, Silent Law works 1-2 for Bob Baffert in Santa Anita Oaks – Orange County Register

Arcadia – This time, in his candidacy for the big stage, Tenma passed the hearing.

Last fall, the filly was preparing as a competitor of the Breeders Cup minors for a strong summer in Del Mar, only to run a bad third behind two other 2 -year -old children trained in Bob Baffert during the final preparation race in Santa Anita and miss the championship event in Del Mar.

On Saturday, with a new sequence of victories that needed a solid performance to win a place in the oaks of Kentucky, the daughter of Nyquist came to win the $ 200,000, Santa Anita Oaks of $ 200,000, 2 ¼ ¼ length on the Silencious Stablem law.

Tenma (which paid $ 2.60), 3 for 3 since Juan Hernandez became his jockey, has now more than enough qualification to execute in Kentucky Oaks of May 2, the equivalent of 3 years of Kentucky derby of the next day. The same goes for the silent law, set up by Martin Garcia, although Buffet is not sure that he would take him to Churchill Downs.

The time of 1 1/16 miles on Saturday, 1: 46.15, was unusually slow for this race.

Baffert said he had never understood what was wrong for Tenma in the oak leaf.

“She had a hard time that day, but not mentally ready,” said slack. “I fell from her after that, I refreshed her and she was ready to leave.”

Tenma was as far as fourth in the five horsepower field before catching up with leader Silent Law from outside in the section.

“I asked her to run to the three eighth (Mile) because she became a little lazy about me,” said Hernandez. “Around the Tour, when I was ready to start moving and passing the law silent, she was really courageous.”

Vodka with a twist finished third, and its points put it outside the 14 horsepower field Kentucky Oaks at this stage.

Three for Juan

The Santa Anita Oaks was the second of the three challenges on the Santa Anita Derby Undercard on Saturday for Hernandez, who will finish another driving title when the classic meeting of Santa Anita ends on Sunday.

Hernandez mounted Queen Maxima ($ 2.40) to a front sprint victory over the hill in the $ 100,000, the challenges of Monrovia Grade III for coach Jeff Mullins and the CAT style ($ 9.80) to a solid Sprint victory in the Echo Eddie issues of $ 125,000 to Peter Miller.

Hernandez won 50 victories on Sunday, eight more than Flavien Prat.

Mark Glatt leads coaches with 30 wins, five more than slack.

Kent can still

OM N Joy’s victory ($ 6.20) in the $ 125,000 of evening jewelry, a 3 -year -old Sprint of California, was the first challenge victory for coach Aggie Ordonez, a veteran of the race in the North of California.

It was also the first challenge victory since 2023 for the Jockey Kent Desormeaux of the renowned temple.

For Orumeaux, 55, whose career was slowed down by alcohol problems, it was the seventh victory in 35 departures in 2025 and the 6182 of his career, 18th of all time in North America.

Desormeaux noted that OM N Joy is an unusually large filly.

“It is quite athletic for a giraffe,” said DESORMEAUX.

By figures

The $ 20,956,288s bet on the races of Santa Anita were 24% higher than a year ago and the higher eighth of the day of the Santa Anita Derby.

The crowd on site of 34,312 reported by Santa Anita was the largest of seven years the Santa Anita Derby Day.

Originally published: April 5, 2025 at 7:22 p.m.