Horse racing notes: Brilliantly, Juan Hernandez head Bob Baffert trio at Santa Anita

Bob Baffert trains three of the six fillies and mares in the Grade III La Cañada Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday, and the jockey assignments help to identify the best of them. Juan Hernandez rides Brilliantly, the 7-5 favorite to handle 1-1/16 miles and the graded stakes level, while Kazushi Kimura has Nafisa and Tiago Pereira gets a shot on a Baffert horse with Ooty.

The top non-Baffert threat is Doug O’Neill’s So There She Was with Emisail Jaramillo. An unofficial stat: Since the beginning of March 2025...