FLEET INDIAN / JOHN MORRISSEY (NYB) QUOTES

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

 

 

OLIVIA M. SAYLOR/THE FLEET INDIAN (NYB) QUOTES

 

Tom Bush, winning trainer of Beautiful But Blue (No. 6): “I wasn’t sure we could handle older fillies, but this filly has really, really come on. She’s been fabulous. We freshened her a little in the winter after she won the stake [Windswept Wings in February at Aqueduct]. We knew we had something, but we couldn’t find a race, so we ran her on the grass. She actually ran well that day, breaking poorly, and then she won the Bouwerie. I could see when the second book came out there wasn’t anything here, so we had to try [older horses]. She’s just a little extra special. Not that many of them can do that, but we’re real happy at the way this filly is going.”

 

Junior Alvarado, winning jockey aboard Beautiful But Blue (No. 6): “She broke really good and put herself in a good spot right away. Turning for home I asked her, and she responded right away and gave me everything she had. I love this filly. It really doesn’t matter with her; she can go six furlongs or a mile and a sixteenth. She can go fast enough for a short distances or she can relax to go longer. She’s just really nice filly.”

 

JOHN MORRISSEY (NYB) QUOTES

 

David Jacobson, winning trainer of Saginaw (No. 1): “That’s what we were worried about - getting him off [the rail]. He stumbled a little bit, but he recovered and he just ran his race. we had him good [coming into the race]. The rest of the field was a similar bunch [to the group] he beat the last time [in the Affirmed Success]. That horse who came from out of town [Bandbox], I was concerned with him.”

 

“Saginaw needed a rest [after the Met Mile]. He had a nice, hard campaign. We freshened him for Saratoga, and what better place to win a race than right here? If he’s that good, we’ll try to get him back into the form he had in his last campaign and try to run him back every 10 or 11 days. He seems to like that, but he’ll tell us. It’s not up to me. It’s up to the horse.”

 

David Cohen, winning jockey aboard Saginaw (No. 1): “He stumbled a little bit and grabbed himself, so that kind of altered it, but it didn’t change anything. I ended up where I wanted to be. He drifted out down the backside, really just did everything in hand just like in all of his races. He ranged up around the turn very easily all on his own and just like usual, I called upon him down the lane and he kicked on very nicely. You never would’ve been able to tell that he’d had 60 days off.”