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Officer beaten again

Officer, putting in a quick reappearance after a Breeders` Cup Juvenile failure, came unstuck again in the California Cup Juvenile Stakes at Santa Anita.

The Bob Baffert-trained runner edged to the front only for Yougottawanna to take his measure by a length and a half in the extended mile test yesterday.

Gary Stevens later blamed himself for the defeat by moving too soon on Officer. It was the first time he had ridden the colt.

Baffert said: 'Sometimes you`ve got to take chances. He got a lot of adversity today which he hadn`t had. He`s still a good horse.'

Officer had been previously been unbeaten going into the Breeders` Cup in which the odds-on shot had to settle for fifth behind the Aidan O`Brien-trained Johannesburg.

Baffert said that he was planning to run Officer in the Hollywood Futurity on December 15.