__$100,000 AFFIRMED STAKES QUOTES __

JOCKEY QUOTES

JUAN HERNANDEZ, PARENTING, WINNER: “He wanted to take the lead, so I just let him go. Then he relaxed really well. I was a little worried because he came off a 5 ½ furlongs race and they went really fast in the beginning. But he relaxed really well. He is really smart horse so he made it easy on himself. When I asked him around the far turn, he picked it up and started to go. He took off really well.”

TRAINER QUOTES

BOB BAFFERT, PARENTING, WINNER: “This was his first time going long, and he has speed. He doesn’t know what’s going on. The first turn comes up quick, so I just told Juan, ‘Do what you do, ride like Juan’. Juan is great out of the gate. He gets them into the race. We knew there was going to be pressure from the outside horse, but I think he just showed how talented he is.

“At the three-eighths pole, you really find out how good they really are. My other horse (Cornell) he really needed the out, he came running late, so I’m proud of him. We have been waiting to get Parenting to go this far and there’s really no allowance races for him. This stake just came up perfectly for him. We are proud of him, and it is nice to have a nice fresh three-year-old for the summer campaign.

“His work last time he didn’t like being on the outside. He was trailing a horse and he wasn’t comfortable. We were teaching him to stay with him, but he was working with a nice horse. They went seven-eighths in 1:24 and it takes a really good horse to do that. It takes a nice horse like National Treasure to get a 1:24 here. I mean the top horses, Flightline, he would work 1:24. But Parenting could do it he is pretty good”.

NOTES: The winning owner is Gandharvi LLC.