Word: sahadi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Working Girl: Although the Derby is an all-male affair this year, trainer Jenine Sahadi is attracting ink as she bids to become the first woman to train a winner in the race's history. Sahadi conditions the Irish-bred colt The Deputy, who should go off as the bettors' second choice and provide competition for Fusaichi Pegasus down the stretch. Since shipping across the Atlantic late last year, The Deputy has won three of four starts, including the Santa Anita Derby, the major California Derby prep, in which he handed second-best War Chant his first career loss...
...spotlight shone on Sahadi during the post position draw for the Santa Anita Derby, when a subsequently much-publicized feud broke out between her and Bob Baffert, who trains Derby hopeful Captain Steve. Baffert, the silver-haired and mean-mouthed bad guy of racing (of a fellow trainer who suffered from Bell's Palsy, Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling...