JOCKEY QUOTES               UMBERTO RISPOLI, THE CHOSEN VRON, WINNER: “”When the gates crashed his intent was to go, obviously he’s coming from a six furlong race but it’s so far he understood that when we didn’t go anywhere, he just switched off his mind and on the first turn he was just completely relaxed. […]

JOCKEY QUOTES               JUAN HERNANDEZ, BRICKYARD RIDE, WINNER: “Craig told me a clean break with him was the key today.  I never bothered him, he felt comfortable the whole way.  It felt like he ran faster when I worked him the other day than he ran today.  I looked at three or four replays […]

JOCKEY QUOTES FLAVIEN PRAT, WHATMAKESSAMMYRUN, WINNER: “I guess it looked like (we ran into trouble) on TV, but no I was fine. It was a little tight but it was fine. He was a lot more professional when I got him outside and asked him to make a run. He was really going forward, it […]

JOCKEY QUOTES  MARIO GUTIERREZ, VENETIAN HARBOR, WINNER: “I had the opportunity to work her in the mornings, so I already knew a lot about her. I knew she carried the speed, that was never the question. I just let her break and right away try to not ask her too much, she did the rest. […]

JOCKEY QUOTES JUAN HERNANDEZ, MAXIM RATE, WINNER: “I just watched a couple of replays of her. It looked like she was a really nice filly. She broke out of there, really clean break, she relaxed really well for me. She’s a very classy filly, you can do whatever you want with her. I had a […]