$85,000 TOKYO CITY CUP STAKES QUOTES

$85,000 TOKYO CITY CUP STAKES QUOTES

JOCKEY QUOTES

JUAN HERNANDEZ, PRIVMAN, WINNER: “This horse has a lot of talent. But he’s still figuring out how to run. He was waiting for me to make my move, but then on the turn I was like pick it up, pick it up, but he didn’t want to. But I think this horse is smart. When we reached the top of the stretch and he switched leads, he took off. I had to work, but as soon as he decided to start making his run he put it all together and ran past that horse.”

TRAINER QUOTES

BOB BAFFERT, PRIVMAN, WINNER: “He’s a tricky horse to ride. He’s quirky. That horse in front us is a good horse. I thought he was gone. But then all of a sudden when Juan started getting after him, he just took off again. I thought it was over. He’s very talented. He’s getting better mentally but is just very quirky.”

NAMESAKE QUOTES

JAY PRIVMAN, PRIVMAN, WINNER: “In all honesty, it was the patience of Bob Baffert. He knew that this horse was immature, he knew he needed more racing. At Del Mar this summer he really kind of figured it out. He won the maiden race, he won the allowance race and he ran a respectable race in the Goodwood last time out. He came back and breezed unbelievable against Nevada Beach. You can see he’s still got a little bit of immaturity to him but hey, he got to the wire first and he is only going to get better. It has really been a lot of fun.”

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