Saturday, June 16, 2012
HILL PRINCE (G3) QUOTES
Christophe Clement, winning trainer of Summer Front (No. 1): “The great thing is that Ramon was so confident. He worked that horse last Sunday and he worked him behind another horse. Ramon has always liked that horse and has great confidence in him and obviously knew he was going to get there because he never panicked. He was so cool. That’s the problem with the one draw: sometimes you take the risk of being boxed in, but I’m a firm believer in saving ground, anyway. I was concerned. He [was] riding, not me, so there’s nothing I can do.”
“The last time we won this race was with Gio Ponti [in 2008], so we’re obviously going to think about the Virginia Derby [Grade 2, July 21, Colonial Downs] a little bit. That’s what we did, and it worked. I don’t like to compare [Summer Front and Gio Ponti] too much, but it worked in the past. We’ll have to think about it again. I’ve always liked my horse. I messed up by running him in the
Ramon Dominguez, winning jockey aboard Summer Front (No. 1): “Turning for home, I was concerned about being on the inside. Unfortunately, I had no choice. The one thing that I was very happy about was the way my horse was handling himself. He was on the bridle where he was going to really go, and sure enough when I got him out, he did. A move like that always takes a lot of horse out of you, and I was very impressed with him.”
