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Richard Baltas, assistant to winning
trainer Eric Guillot of Champagne d’Oro (No. 12): “She runs better up
front. When she ran second in the
Fair Grounds Oaks, coming out of the six-furlong maiden race, she wasn’t quite
fit enough and she still dug in.
Today, everything was right.
I told Martin [Garcia, jockey] ‘if she breaks well, let her place
herself.’ If she got loose on the
lead, they might not go after her and they didn’t. She got an easy pace and had something
left.
“She is going to Saratoga. Eric is going to
take 15-20 horses to Saratoga, and she will be one of them.”
Martin Garcia, winning jockey aboard
Champagne d’Oro (No. 12): “Today, I let her
break on her own. I let her have the lead and just keep her together and
comfortable. I know she can run. Today, this dirt [course] helped her a lot. She
loved the ground.”
Rick Dutrow, Jr., trainer of second-place
finisher Amen Hallelujah (No. 6): “The horse ran big.”
Ramon Dominguez, rider aboard second-place
finisher Amen Hallelujah (No. 6): “She was going fine through the first
half-mile. For a brief moment, we
had nowhere to go. Once we got out,
we were pretty wide. She was coming
at the winner and I thought we had a chance to get her, but the winner kept
digging in.”
Dan Hendricks, trainer of third-place
finisher Tanda (No. 2): “She ran really well. She got off sulky-slow, then sat back
and relaxed well. Mike [Smith,
jockey] said he got pushed out, pushed out and had to make a super-wide move and
it cost her the race."
Mike Smith, rider aboard third-place
finisher Tanda (No. 2): “I had a horrible trip. I got away last, and the
other horses were taking me out and taking me in. I was probably on the best
horse.”
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