Trinniberg felt
fiesty following his three-length Bay Shore
romp on Saturday, while the colt’s connections seemed content to enjoy
his second consecutive Grade 3 victory for the time being.
“He’s great,” owner Shivananda Parbhoo said Sunday
morning. “He’s doing very, very good. Did you see how he galloped
out? It was amazing. Willie [Martinez]
said he didn’t even ask him at all during the race. To win a race like
that in New York
against quality, well-bred horses and to do it so easy…I couldn’t
believe it.”
The son of Teuflesberg gave his connections several signs that he was
not overly taxed by his gate-to-wire win in the seven-furlong Bay
Shore.
“Last night, we gave him his feed at 7:15 and by 7:40, he was
finished,” said Shivananda Parbhoo, who manages the colt with his father,
trainer Bisnath Parboo. “He wanted to bite everybody, and he’s not
that type of horse. Usually, he’s very easy. This morning, he was very,
very aggressive – we had to restrain him just to walk him he was so
strong.”
Shivananda Parbhoo said he would make a decision about
Trinniberg’s next start within the next two weeks, after shipping the
colt by van Monday morning back to Bisnath Parboo’s Calder Race Course
base.
“I’m still 85 percent for the Preakness, 15 percent for the
Kentucky Derby,” said Shivananda Parbhoo. “Everybody likes the Derby; I like it, too.
Everybody wants to win that race, but if I think he’s not capable of
going a mile and a quarter, why go just to run? I don’t want to ruin the
horse and there are so many races for 3-year-olds. His breeding says a mile to
a mile and a sixteenth, and that’s it. He’s a good horse, and I
want to keep him a good horse.”