JOCKEY QUOTES FROM THE GREAT RACE PLACE

MONROVIA STAKES QUOTES
JOCKEY QUOTES
GARY STEVENS, PONTCHATRAIN, WINNER: “Tyler’s filly (Baze, on Camryn Kate) must have jumped in a little bit the first step because my filly’s right rear went down for two strides. She got right back up underneath me but I thought she might have grabbed a quarter; it was pretty severe. But then, boom, she just took off. I even asked Amy (Dollase, assistant to trainer Tom Proctor) when we came back to check her right hind and she said that the shoe had ‘sprung.’ It almost would have been better if it came off completely.



SANTA YNEZ STAKES QUOTES
JOCKEY QUOTES
MIKE SMITH, AWESOME BABY, WINNER: “Off her first out, it looked like she would have run better her next two starts. Maybe she just bounced off that first race, or tailed off for some odd reason, I don’t know. Today though, she ran dynamite. She broke really well, was well in hand until I needed to ask her and I just showed her the whip and she kept running. It was a great race out of her today.”
RAFAEL BEJARANO, TASTE LIKE CANDY, SECOND: “The post position killed us today. I wish I could have an outside post.




SAN GABRIEL STAKES QUOTES
JOCKEY QUOTES
RAFAEL BEJARANO, JERANIMO, WINNER: “This horse loves to sit back and relax. He doesn’t like to be too close to the lead because he gets too excited. He was flying at the end and showed me a huge kick. Nakatani was only four or five lengths in front of me (on pace-setting Slim Shadey) so I knew I just had to wait and I would catch him.



ROBERT J. FRANKEL STAKES QUOTES
JOCKEY QUOTES
MIKE SMITH, CUSTOMER BASE, WINNER: “I knew the two outside horses would have speed so I could work out a good trip from that point unless I got buried, which could have happened. I thought the main horse to follow was Stormy Lucy, or our other horse (Gulsary) who was behind me so I parked in behind Stormy Lucy and didn’t move until I had to.
“I don’t want to sound cocky or anything but it felt like a Zenyatta-like photo finish where everyone thought it was so close, but yet I was confident. She was just hanging there, just waiting.