A three-time Grade I winner. Victorious at all the major Southern California tracks. Third or better every time she appeared on track.

She did all of this in just six starts.

Sired by the talented racehorse and stallion Uncle Mo, Bast proved to be a win-early type like her sire. Trained by Bob Baffert, she only needed two starts to break her maiden, but that first victory came in a very unlikely race: the Grade I Del Mar Debutante. She showed promise in her debut at the seaside track, but Bast made an impression by completing the rare feat of graduating at the highest level in Thoroughbred racing. And that made her a horse to watch moving forward.

Easy to locate because she liked to stay a couple of lengths from the front before making a move, Bast showed the Del Mar Debutante was not a fluke by gamely defeating Comical in the Grade I Chandelier Stakes after a battle that lasted virtually the length of the stretch. That was a big performance due to the fact that it was her first try against winners, and also because the Chandelier represented her first attempt at routing. Moreover, it set Bast up for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

The winning streak came to a halt in the Juvenile Fillies, but Bast did not disgrace herself. She battled for the lead before getting overtaken, but outran another rival to take third in the biggest race of the year in her division. She also gained something in defeat, and that was how more people were witness to her class level. With two Grade I victories under her belt and a placing in a Breeders' Cup race, Bast was just improving her stature with every start.

The Breeders' Cup tends to be the season finale for several horses, but Bast was not finished with 2019 yet. Moving down to Orange County, she showed up in the Grade I Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos. It was a new track for her, and the Starlet provided her with a new assignment: running on an off track. That was just fine with Bast, who was wisely sent to the lead. She never relinquished her position, avenging her loss to Donna Veloce in the Juvenile Fillies (she finished second to British Idiom) while leaving her other rivals way behind.

That gave her three Grade I wins at as many racetracks to wrap up an impressive two-year-old campaign that was not unlike her sire's. In fact, she managed to take one more Grade I than Uncle Mo did at the same age. Clearly, she inherited Uncle Mo's class and drive to win.

Returning to the races in the early days of 2020, Bast made her three-year-old debut at Santa Anita. Back to sprinting in the Grade II Santa Ynez Stakes, Bast raced wide and on the outside but was too tough for everyone in the field as she took over late for her fourth graded score. That would be her last start, for she was retired afterwards due to injury.

Despite the brevity of her career, Bast managed to be prolific in her own right. Consistent and classy, she could handle a fast and slow pace, won over different distances and racetracks, got a victory over a track altered by rain. and won with different jockeys. To do all of that in just a few starts takes talent. But Bast had an abundance of talent.

And that put her at the forefront of California's two-year-old filly division during the second half of 2019.