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ARCADIA, Calif. -- For trainer Bob Baffert, three is not a crowd. Four maybe, but not three.

After watching his 3-year-olds Bob and John, Point Determined, Point of Impact, and Sky Diving work on Wednesday morning at Santa Anita, Baffert decided that three of those colts, but not all four, would run on Saturday in the Grade 2, $250,000 San Felipe Stakes.

Point of Impact, with only three starts the least experienced of the four, is the odd colt out. He, like Point Determined, is owned by Beverly Lewis and the estate of Bob Lewis.

"They already have one in there," Baffert said. "He's such a big son of a gun. I might go out of town with him."

Baffert has a strong hand in the 1 1/16-mile San Felipe, which was expected to have a field of eight when entries were taken Thursday morning. Bob and John has won his last two starts, including the Sham Stakes, and is the probable favorite. Point Determined has won twice in four starts, including an allowance race at Golden Gate last month. Sky Diving was second in the Turf Paradise Derby in his last start.

Baffert did juggle riders. He said Garrett Gomez would ride Point Determined, not David Flores as originally planned. Flores instead will ride Sky Diving.

Bob and John was the first horse to work following the 9 a.m. renovation break. With his regular rider, Victor Espinoza, on board, Bob and John effortlessly polished off a half-mile in 48.60 seconds.

Sky Diving, working in company, drilled a half-mile in 47.40 seconds. Earlier in the morning, Gomez was aboard Point Determined when he worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds.

The massive Point of Impact, a spitting image of his sire, Point Given, worked five furlongs in 1:00.60.

"If I don't do something like that," Baffert said after working several other horses in his barn, "I don't feel like I'm training."

Another San Felipe contender, New Joysey Jeff, worked a half-mile in 49.80 seconds for trainer Mark Glatt.

Others expected for the San Felipe are Racketeer, Refinery, and Simon Pure.