Thursday, September 27, 2012
LONESOME GLORY (G1 STEEPLECHASE) QUOTES
Bruce Miller, father of winning trainer Blythe Miller Davies, of Pierrot Lunaire (No. 4): “Blythe is the trainer and we train this horse over [Blythe’s] gallop, which was the key. He’s been training really, really well. I was really nervous because he did not run that well this spring and had not run since [June]. We put a lot of work into him to get him this far and to be honest with you, I didn’t really think he would win. I thought he would run well, but I never expected him to win.”
Bernard Dalton, winning jockey aboard Pierrot Lunaire (No. 4): “He ran well in the Zeke Ferguson over a little shorter trip. We were handy the whole way, and he was beaten only [13 ¾] lengths against faster horses. Bruce said he was training real well, otherwise he wouldn’t bother coming up being a long shot, and he took the blinkers off. The horse just traveled and jumped. [Bruce] said to me, ‘I want you to hold him up today. Just pop away, pop away, and don’t come with a run until after the second to last [fence].’”
“I was following Paddy [Young on Left Unsaid] most of the way around. I saw him easing out going to the second to last, and he landed offsides in front. I brought Spy in the Sky with me when I had gone out, and my lad is a little on the leery side. He was just doing enough, sticking his head out, sticking his head out. He had a bit of gas in the tank, but he was never going to do more than he had to.”
