One More Bid

One More Bid raced nine times during his 3-year-old season in 2022 and clearly saved his best for last. It took One More Bid needed eight outings to break his maiden, a feat which he accomplished on Nov. 19 in a one-mile turf race at Del Mar. It seemed to have been the switch to the turf and the stretch out to two turns that proved to be the wake-up call for One More Bid, who was 0-for-5 on the main track with two seconds and a third.

Showing off his newfound prowess on the grass going one mile, One More Bid returned for his ninth and final start of 2022 making his stakes debut in the Grade 2 $200,000 Santa Anita Mathis Mile Stakes, where he posted the upset to score his second turf mile win in a row.  Racing as the 16-1 odds longest shot on the board in the field of six in the Mathis Mile, One More Bid pressed pace setter Sumter around the track, took command late in the stretch and then held off a late bid by closing runner-up Balnikhov to preserve the win by a nose. One More Bid ran the turf mile in a time of 1:33.67 on firm going.

One More Bid is trained by Ryan Hanson. He was bred in Kentucky by the sire California Chrome out of the mare Never Grow Old by Scat Daddy.