Sunday, August 22, 2010
George Arnold, II, winning trainer of It’s Tea Time (No. 6): “She ran on conventional dirt in the Kentucky Oaks, and she ran pretty well. She had the one hole in a 14-horse field, which didn’t work out for her. I told Julien, ‘I don’t know how the race will play because small fields can be funny, so do what you want.’ You’re always happy to win a race here, any race.”
Julien Leparoux, wining jockey aboard It’s Tea Time (No. 6): “I didn’t really have a preference where to have her in the race. She was most comfortable behind horses, so we just settled in the back. She ran very well and was very relaxed. I didn’t have any worries about the off track because I had breezed her on the dirt before and she traveled over it well. The trainer, Rusty Arnold, told me that this surface today would not be a problem.”
