ARCADIA, Calif. — Creative Cause gets a chance to solidify his status as the West’s leading Kentucky Derby candidate when he runs as the 6-5 early favorite in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby.
The gray colt drew the No. 1 post in the field of 10 for tomorrow’s 1 1/8-mile race at Santa Anita.
Creative Cause has four wins in seven career starts, including the San Felipe Stakes last month. He’s never finished worse than third and even then he’s never been more than a length behind at the finish line.
“Good horses overcome adversity and he’s had some, but I guess he likes to run,” trainer Mike Harrington said, “Horses that like to run, they perform every time.”
Trainer Bob Baffert, recovering from a heart attack suffered last week in Dubai, entered three horses in an attempt to win his seventh Santa Anita Derby and third in the last four years.