The Grade 1 King's Bishop is the sprinting counterpart to the Travers, with 3-year-olds going 7 furlongs over the main track for a $250,000 purse. Undefeated Lost in the Fog shipped in from Golden Gate Fields and was sent off as the 3-10 favorite in the field of seven, despite training in bar shoes over the last week due to a quarter crack. Among his challengers were 9-1 second choice The Daddy and 10-1 third choice Social Probation. However, it was another walk in the park for Lost in the Fog. After a rough start, jockey Russell Baze got him to the inside to save ground and hustled him to the front, and he ran very fast fractions of 22.09 and 44.61, with 20-1 shot Fusaichi Rock Star desperately trying to keep up. On the turn, Fusaichi Rock Star tired from the fast pace and dropped back to finish last. Social Probation made a futile rush from seventh to grab second, but was no challenge for Lost in the Fog, who finished 4 3/4 lengths clear in a hand ride, finishing the distance in 1:22.56. It was 3/4 length back from Social Probation to 24-1 shot Better Than Bonds, who was a head in front of The Daddy in fourth.
Results chart from Equibase
Winning trainer Greg Gilchrist said, "That's pretty much what all his races have been like. Everybody keeps waiting for him to get beat, but it hasn't happened yet, and it's going to take an awfully good horse to beat him." Asked about the quarter crack, Gilchrist said, "I checked the foot after the race and the quarter crack had not split open. There was no blood. But we'll take him back home and continue to train him with the bar shoe."
Winning jockey Russell Baze said, "The race set up pretty much the way we thought it would. He was getting tired inside the sixteenth-pole. He runs the second quarter as fast, if not faster, than the first quarter and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him. You've got to take your hat off to Greg (Gilchrist). He's taken good care of this horse, and entered him in races where he belongs."
Calvin Borel, aboard second place finisher Social Probation, said, "(Lost in the Fog) came out pretty good on us (at the start). My horse had to make up a lot of ground. It was unbelievable, the ground we had to make up. If that didn't happen, I think we could have gotten to him. He only beat us by three lengths. He may still have beaten us, but it would have been a much better race."
Robert Reinacher, trainer of third place finisher Better Than Bonds, said, "He ran good. I thought possibly we could be second, and we almost were second. He ran great. We'll take a look at the Jerome."
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