GRADE III, $ 200,000 ROBERT B. LEWIS STAKES QUOTES

JOCKEY QUOTES

MARTIN GARCIA, CITIZEN BULL, WINNER: “He was fresh. When I was warming him up, he just wanted to go and you could see that he was ready and when the gates opened it was like the ground broke un-derneath him. He just broke too fast. Right away he recovered and I just sat, sat, sat and he just took me right away. Bob knows when the horses are ready, that’s why he is in the Hall Of Fame, he knows when the horse is ready.

“My horse took the pressure, and he was just so mature and professional.

“When he made the lead he kind of pinned his ears forward and he was waiting around for company. He was just messing around; he wasn’t very focused. He had one ear forward and one ear backwards, that means you have plenty of horse left.

“I feel really lucky because these are hard times and me being on a superstar horse like this it means a lot to me.”

JUAN HERNANDEZ, RODRIGUEZ, SECOND: “I just let him take the reins because the other horse broke in front of me already, so I didn’t want to go and fight him. When I gave him the reins, he relaxed beauti-fully, and responded really well around the bend. When I asked him to pick it up, he picked it up and started making his move.”

TRAINER QUOTES

BOB BAFFERT, CITIZEN BULL, WINNER: “You don’t know until their next start.He has been working really well, he is a big strong heavy horse and he handled it well. He wasn’t cranked up totally but he is such a good horse that he just caught another gear.

“My other horses ran really well. They are learning their styles, and they need a little more racing. We are happy and especially winning the Robert B. Lewis because he was one of my favorite clients of all time. It is so nice. “The champ is back! The ‘Bull’ looked good coming down. It’s funny you see him and you don’t realize that in a race that he has those gears, he won’t show you that in the morning but he does have gears.”

NOTES: The winning owners are SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables LLC, Stonestreet Stables LLC, Dianne Bashor, Determined Stables, Robert E Masterson, Tom J. Ryan, Waves Edge Capital LLC and Catherine Donovan.