Baffert Has Two in Humana Distaff

The Kentucky Derby is not the only Grade I race in which trainer Bob Baffert will have multiple entrants today at Churchill Downs.

Baffert, who is scheduled to run Point Determined, Bob and John, and Sinister Minister in the Derby, will send out Behaving Badly and Pussycat Doll in the $250,000 Humana Distaff. The race at seven furlongs, along with the Derby, is part of a pick six with a guaranteed pool of $750,000.

Owned by Patti and Hal Earnhardt III, Behaving Badly, a 5-year-old Pioneering mare, has won four in a row. She became a Grade I winner in January when taking the Santa Monica Handicap at Santa Anita.

Pussycat Doll, who is owned by breeder Mike Pegram, won her Grade I about a month earlier. She splashed to a 5 3/4 -length victory in the La Brea last New Year’s Eve.

The other races in the pick six are the $200,000 Churchill Downs Handicap for older horses at seven furlongs, the $100,000 La Troienne for 3-year-old fillies at 7 1/2 furlongs, the $100,000 Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile for older fillies and mares, and the $400,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic for older horses at 1 1/8 miles.

Race of the day: How True It Is, who began her career with a pair of wins at Gulfstream Park, will make her New York debut for Never Tell Farm and trainer Joe Orseno in the $200,000 Nassau County Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Belmont Park.

One for the road: General Invitation is bred to handle the turf and can make her first start since being claimed for $12,500 a winning one as she stretches out to a mile in the fifth race at Golden Gate Fields.

Exotically speaking: A pick three using Distorted Rumor in the fifth; Putmeinyourwill, Seastate, Bullish Yield, James The Third and Unbridled Harmony in the sixth; and Sendero, Capecloakanddagger and Souvenir Zone in the seventh.

Winners: (previous day/meet total): 1/15. Money: (previous day/meet total): $6/$101.20. Total money bet: $136.