The return of Your Ol' Ears

"He looks great," Bob Baffert said about Euroears, who returns from a lengthy layoff in Saturday's $150,000 Palos Verdes at Santa Anita.

Should I ask, I wondered, how his ears are? No, I decided. The Hall of Fame trainer might think I had lost more than a recent wager.

But it was just such a question that got the powerful chestnut his odd name. When he was an unnamed 2-year-old, he had an ear infection.