GRADE III, MONROVIA STAKES QUOTES

GRADE III, MONROVIA STAKES QUOTES

JOCKEY QUOTES

MIKE SMITH, SPIRITED BOSS, WINNER: “I went in thinking I was really live today on everything I was riding. You have to get them across the wire first, that’s always tough, but it was great. I knew Mark (Glatt’s) horse So Happy was going to run big today and I talked to Mr. D’Angelo this morning and he was telling me how good this filly was doing. He said, ‘You are absolutely going to love her. She is a sweetheart. She just ran dynamite and all his team is from Venezuela. I was happy to win for him.

“I’m still having fun. At my age, trust me, I’m not done yet. We are going to go for a while.”

“Every single race has been important in my life. Today was a special day, again to win the Santa Anita Derby for Mark Glatt. It was an amazing thing with his family here. With what they have been through, losing his wife Dena and for that horse to run the way he did today for Saints or Sinners Stable is just really incredible.”

JUAN HERNANDEZ, QUEEN MAXIMA, THIRD: "She was really hot in the post today; I felt it. Normally, she's really calm and professional. I don't know why, but today she didn't want to stand and she broke slow. She traveled well, but normally when I ask her to step it up, she takes off, but not today.

TRAINER QUOTES

LEONARDO PALADALA, ASSISTANT TO JOSE D’ANGELO, SPIRITED BOSS, WINNER: “This horse has been magnificent. Peter Eurton suggested to Jose to bring this horse to Santa Anita for this stakes race and he was right. Mike Smith did the rest.”

NOTES: The winning owner and breeder is Tag Stables.