Stakes Quotes: Louisiana Champions Day Sprint (Flashy Wise Cat)

Race 11—$100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Sprint

3-year-olds and up, Accredited Louisiana-breds, six furlongs, 20^th running

 

Jockey Kerwin Clark (Flashy Wise Cat, winner): “It was good. I never rode the horse before. I’ve been working him out, and that's exactly how he works, you know, we just let him settle the first part and make that big ol’ run. You know, like I said, I never rode him and I didn’t know what kind of kick to expect. So when we turned for home, there was kind of a little alleyway there down the middle and boy, when I reached back and hit him he just…holy crap…I was like, ‘Oh crap, I’ve got to find some place to go now.’ Troy just said, ‘Be patient, he runs good fresh,’ You know, he was right. What a performance.”

 

Trainer Troy Young (Flashy Wise Cat, winner): “Thank you mom and dad (owners Lee and Shirley Young of Lee Young Farm) for everything. He doesn’t handle the hot weather very well. That’s why he didn’t run during the summer. Likes the cold weather. I felt that if I had him ready to go he would go. Apparently he did it.

 

“There was going to be an honest pace, according to the Form. This horse loves this track and this track sets up well for him.

 

“We had to freshen him up. This horse, he doesn’t sweat. I got lucky to run two seconds with him. The last race was a bad call on my part and I shouldn’t have run him. We freshened him up and Kerwin had started riding a few horses for me. When it was time to get this horse ready for this race he was there to do the job for me. That’s the way I do my business. He was there when I needed him and he got the horse ready so he rode the horse today. Believe me, I had a lot of calls from a lot of good riders who wanted to ride this horse today but I stuck with Kerwin because he does the work in the mornings for me.”

 

 

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