Seismic Beauty had her final work at Del Mar this morning, covering a solo half mile in :49.60. With the Baffert team shipping back to Santa Anita early next week, trainer Bob Baffert pushed back her breeze to coordinate appropriately with her ship schedule and walk days. Bob was extremely pleased with today’s work and we will check back in once she breezes back at Santa Anita Park.

Seismic Beauty’s full sister sells as hip 5 tomorrow at the Keeneland September sale. She should go through shortly after the 1:00 p.m. ET start time.

In other sales news, as mentioned on the most recent installment of the Stable Check-In, we plan to nominate Seismic Beauty to Fasig-Tipton’s Night of the Stars sale in November. This is strictly to keep all options open and is standard practice for a female with her sizable broodmare value. No decisions have been made about her racing career beyond the Breeders’ Cup and campaigning her beyond this season remains very much on the table.

Seismic Beauty had a less-than-perfect trip but did not run to her very short odds today at Santa Anita, settling for third.

She broke a bit awkwardly from the rail, and rushed up to chase the pace from third while on the inside and in fairly tight. She remained bottled up at the top of the lane, but once she had a clear path, she just did not seem to want to go through. She finished up ok, but not well enough to get the job done.

Jockey Juan Hernandez saw and felt it the same way, and also mentioned that he thinks Seismic Beauty will be better going a route of ground. We’ve been thinking the same, so that will likely be the plan—to stretch her out further next time.

She’s clearly a better horse than she showed today, and we look forward to her showing it next time third off the lay-off and with more ground to work with.