Saturday, October 20, 2012
IROQUOIS (NYB) QUOTES
Jimmy Iselin, winning trainer of Willet (No. 9): "Even though you tell the rider she's ratable and take your time, you start to get worried [the first three-eighths of a mile]. She's such a good horse; she's a very special horse. She looks like Zenyatta. I don't know if she's as good as Zenyatta, but she looks a lot like her."
"We want to develop them to run long. Even after this race, we want to go further. You never count your chickens before they hatch, but we have it in our minds to go a mile and the logical race would be the [Grade 2] Go for Wand at Aqueduct [November 23], if she comes out it well."
Rajiv Maragh, winning jockey aboard Willet (No. 9): "I wanted to be a little more forwardly placed looking at it coming into the race, but she wasn't keeping up early, so I kind of had to go to Plan B. At the quarter pole, she just jumped in like a different horse and sprinted home. In the early part of the race I was a little worried because it seemed like she wasn't quite getting hold of the track, but in the end she just took off."
