| Saturday, March 1, 2014 Tom Fool Handicap (G3) quotes David Jacobson, winning trainer of Strapping Groom (No. 1): "We thought we'd be closer to the pace. Being down on the inside we wanted to get out of there, but the way he ran from off the pace today is another dimension he has." "With the training schedules we've had because of the severe winter, he wasn't the fittest horse today, but when I saw the fractions I said, 'We might have a shot.' This was all going through my mind in a split second. He's a good horse, and he's one of the better sprinters on the East Coast, if not in the country right now, in my opinion." "The obvious is the Carter [Grade 1, $500,000, April 5]. That's on the top of the list. Anything is possible. He'll tell us how he's doing and he'll let us know what he wants to do." On Candyman E (No. 2), sixth: "He might just need to be freshened up, and today wasn't his day." Irad Ortiz, Jr., winning jockey aboard Strapping Groom (No. 1): "He came out [of the gate] a little slow and [Jacobson] told me to put him in the race. When I got clear in the stretch, he took off. He was ready today; [Jacobson] did a great job with him. Rudy Rodriguez, trainer of runner-up Dads Caps (No. 4): "One of these days, we'll get them. We were happy with the way he ran. I was hoping the outside horse would clear us and go to the lead, but then we got to the inside and got pressured. He ran a big race. Strapping Groom is a very nice horse." Cornelio Velasquez, jockey aboard runner-up Dads Caps (No. 4): "My horse ran good. A 40-1 horse challenged me but I had to go to the lead; I didn't have a choice. My horse ran big." | 
