Wednesday, August 8, 2012
MANDYS GOLD OVERNIGHT STAKES QUOTES
Steve Asmussen, winning trainer of My Miss Aurelia (No. 6): “It’s amazing how special she truly is. The memories of her running last year were great. When she came back into the barn and we starting training her and breezing her … you’re hoping to have horses who are who she is. What a joy she is to be around.”
“It’s great to see her back at the races. We wanted to be sure she was OK. She is tremendous. Her ability level is up. Her works this year have been amazing. I think she’ll have a huge year. We watched her stumble away from there. We’ve watched races. We watched a 3-5 shot the other day get knocked down with Ramon [Dominguez]. Anything can happen. We’ll see how she comes back and speak to George [
Julien Leparoux, winning jockey aboard My Miss Aurelia (No. 6): “I think at the start, she pushed from behind and kind of slid. After that she was so relaxed. She was running so comfortably. I was very confident.”
Barbara Banke, co-owner of My Miss Aurelia (No. 6): “I’m impressed. She looks like she wanted to get back to the track, and she was looking at the stands the whole time, so I think she’s figured it out. The stumble kind of caused me some gray hairs – which you’ll never see, because I’ll cover them up – but she looks great. She’s a champion, and she has it in her to do that [recover after stumbling]. I was a little relieved that she didn’t do suicide fractions. She’s a great horse, and we’re just happy to have her back. We’ll see how she comes out, make sure that nothing amiss happened with the stumble. We’ll be checking her from nose to tail and making sure that she is 100 percent. We always like racing at
George Bolton, co-owner of My Miss Aurelia (No. 6): “She didn’t hit the ground, like Gunboat did [when sixth in the Grade 2 Amsterdam on July 29]. So [Julien Leparoux] thinks she slipped coming out of there instead of [going] down on her head, which would have been much worse. He thinks she was looking at the stands the whole way down the stretch; that’s why he couldn’t get her to change leads. That was a nice piece of news from Julien that she was not in some kind of recovery mode, but was feeling good and was curious [about] what was going on.”
