Citizen Bull cruises to easy win in Shared Belief S.

Citizen Bull, last year’s 2-year-old champion for Bob Baffert, broke a three-race losing streak in the $125,000 Shared Belief S. on Aug. 31 at Del Mar.

The 3-year-old son of Into Mischief, who had been off since the June 7^th Woody Stephens S. (G1), faced just two foes following a pair of scratches in Sunday’s one-mile race. Citizen Bull took the lead right away and was never seriously pressured at any point. He had a 2 ½-length lead after six furlongs and widened that margin to 5 1/2 at the wire.

“He was back to a distance he really loves,” said Baffert. “The Breeders’ Cup Mile is probably where we will be pointing. We were trying to get him back to form after what he went through. I told Juan [Hernandez] ‘Come back with bugs on your teeth.’ It was good to see him put on a show today. You saw the champion Citizen Bull today.”

Owned by SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Stonestreet Stables LLC, Dianne Bashor, Determined Stables, Robert E. Masterson, Tom J. Ryan, Waves Edge Capital LLC and Catherine Donovan, Citizen Bull is 5-0-1 in nine starts and has earned $1,556,000.