Race 10—$100,000
2-year-old colts & geldings, Accredited Louisiana-breds, six furlongs, 20th running
Jockey Carlos Gonzalez (Su Casa G Casa, winner): “There was so much speed in the race. We’ve got a lot of speed but we don’t want to get into a speed duel. Bret told me, ‘Make sure you break sharp, let him go a few jumps, and then grab him.’ I let the horse on the inside go ahead and when I asked him he gave me a little bit at a time. A little more, a little more, then I caught up to the leaders at the quarter-pole and I asked him to go and he went.”
Trainer Bret Calhoun (Su Casa G Casa, winner): “I felt pretty confident. The race at Delta was pretty disappointing. He ran a great race just to get beat. He was roped by a horse the whole way that day. Going back to one turn I was pretty confident. There was a lot of speed in here and in the back of my mind I was hoping there’d be a speed duel and everyone would get burned up. I thought he was the fastest horse but I didn’t want him to go too fast and take a chance that he’d get burned out. Carlos did a good job the first three-eighths of a mile settling him in and the race went like we had hoped.”
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James J. Mulvihill
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