GRADE I, $300,000 SHOEMAKER MILE STAKES QUOTES

JOCKEY QUOTES

FLAVIEN PRAT, KING OF GOSFORD, WINNER: “I thought they were going fast enough in the first quarter. Once the field started to spread out, we started to pick it up on the back side. I was just hoping they would come back to me. I thought about going inside, but knew he would have a good turn of foot, so we went around them and he got there. This horse is a really good horse and he has a special place with me because we won my 56th graded stakes (of 2024) with him.”

TRAINER QUOTES

PHILIP D’AMATO, KING OF GOSFORD, WINNER: “I was expecting his best performance and I was hoping it was going to be a win. I think Flavien learned a little something in defeat last time about making his move. But he knew and I knew that going into that last race it was a tune up for this race and it worked out well. “He is a handful (in the morning). I have to give a lot of credit to the exercise riders, Roberto and Tony Gutierrez his breeze rider. He makes them work hard. He doesn’t do anything easy he likes to play around when he works out, but they’ve got his number, and he does just as much as he needs to do to be ready to win races like this.”

NOTES: The winning owners are Benowitz Family Trust, CYBT, Saul Gevertz, Michael Nentwig, and Jeremy Peskoff.