You can imagine they've saved this name for a good one. A very good one.

McKinzie, a Street Sense colt, will have his debut in Saturday's eighth race for 2-year-old maidens at seven furlongs. The colt is named in honor of the late Brad McKinzie, a lifelong friend of Bob Baffert, who trains McKinzie for owners Mike Pegram, Paul Weitman and Karl Watson.

Pegram and McKinzie were close friends. McKinzie, who died on Aug. 6, was a long-time Los Alamitos racing executive who directed the track's expansion into daytime Thoroughbred racing in 2014. McKinzie and Baffert attended the University of Arizona together in the 1970s.

The colt was purchased for $170,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and is out of Runway Model, who won the Golden Rod Stakes and Alcibiades Stakes in 2004 and was third in that year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

McKinzie is the 3-1 favorite on the morning-line, a slight choice over Shivermetimbers, who Baffert said on Saturday is the rival he respects.