She deserved this because she's run well in big races but had some tough luck. Today she broke good and was a different filly.
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The key is coming out in good condition. It's a good race as long as they're handling the distance. My filly still has to prove she can run 1 116 miles.
I just rode her with confidence. A horse went out there and opened up a little bit, but I know how good of a filly she is and I knew she would kick. She showed that she was back to herself, and she finished really strong.
From everything I've read, it sounds like I'm going to be going against probably the best mare in the country in Happy Ticket. I'll get a good line on my filly after the race. It will be interesting, with her first route race of the year, hooking into a horse like that.
She should like getting back to Belmont. She's a quality filly and she never runs a bad race. She hit the side of the gate coming out in the Test and we've schooled her a bunch of times, so I think she'll be different.
California has the strength right now in the 3-year-old filly category. There may be one or two good ones back east, but the stronger group is out here.
She did it very easily last time. This was a different scenario. She's a pretty long filly and you think it will take her a while to get going, but she makes it so easy for you. As soon as you take a hold of her, she's ready to take off.
She was wide but it didn't matter. She needed her last race and this was about right for her, coming back. She's the best three-year-old filly I've had. I'm just telling you, I'm very impressed with her.
She's such a gutsy filly. I thought she could have won the Spinaway if she got outside earlier because she and Adieu are pretty evenly matched on ability.
I was stalking Jerry Bailey aboard My Typhoon because I didn't want to let him go too easy. The more I got closer to Jerry, the more confidence my filly had. They told me just to be careful if she takes the lead too early because she would pull up. Going to the three-sixteenths pole, we both switched leads and we went 'Oh, expletive' We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.
She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.
Shes a very nice filly very correct and well balanced. I love her sire, and she just looks the part of a racehorse. I buy horses who I think can win Grade 1 races.
I'm just thrilled because Michael has always said to take our time with her and hope she's an autumn filly,
This filly loves to train, and she does it with great enthusiasm that's why she needs spacing in her races. She has run her guts out all six times she's raced, and in the three losses you could say something about each one of them. She does things right every time, and most horses don't do things right every time.
I'm not afraid to route this filly. If I had left her in New York after the Test to get acclimated to Belmont, she might have won, since she switched leads too early on that big turn, but hindsight is 2020. Anyway, she's never trained as well as she has lately and we're really looking forward to this race.
She's a hard-trying filly. I've ridden her on dirt and grass and she always seems to try hard. The more I took hold of her, the more she kept running. I never hit her and she ran a good race. I've had good luck with this filly in the past and she's coming