Jerry Hollendorfer
Jerry Hollendorfer
Jerry Hollendorferis an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers...
alone brother kentucky left looking pace run santa soft ways winner
While we were disappointed, we're not down on our horse. There are a lot of different ways of looking at things. You could say he didn't run well enough to go to the Kentucky Derby. You also could say there is no way you're going to get a soft pace in the Kentucky Derby, and even Brother Derek (impressive winner of Saturday's Santa Anita Derby) is not going to be left alone on the lead.
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I think he showed a lot of guts today because they came to him, and he had every excuse to chuck it in. He went 1:11.05 (for 6 furlongs) and picked it up to 1:34.81 (for 1 mile) and finished really well.
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That could very well change. I'm sure he could be persuaded one way or another. The kind of people who rate horses had him at 20-to-1 (in the Kentucky Derby Future Pool).
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We need races in between what your ultimate goal is. If he can win on Saturday, it makes the ultimate goal worth pursuing.
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That was just an experiment that worked out. We sure weren't thinking about any million-dollar race for him.
entered kicked next pony stable
We entered him, and he got kicked by the stable pony the next day. He had to have stitches in his hock.
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We'll let things settle out and see if we can make an intelligent decision on what we should do. I'm not going to say either way because I didn't like how the pace came up today. It was a deeper track, too, and the winner was used to that kind of track, but if you go to the Kentucky Derby, you have to overcome obstacles like that. Opportunities don't come very often to be in America's race. We'd like to be in it, but if we determine that there are too many things against us, we won't do it.
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Whether it's 2,000 or 2,500, it must be some kind of record for a jockey-trainer team.
chance hope horses
They've only had a three-horse dead-heat once, so you can't hope for that. I just want all of the horses to have their own chance to win.
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It looked like Shadow Raider was going easy. I thought Shadow Raider was going to win it, but 'Dream came running.
pace race
We don't think there was enough pace to set the race up for us.
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Absolutely nothing bothers him, and that's a pretty rare thing. He reminds me a lot of Lost in the Fog; he has the same kind of temperament.
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I told him many times that I think this is a pretty good colt, but he is the kind of guy who doesn't get excited. He said, 'We'll see, we'll see.' He has told me repeatedly that he doesn't want to run in the Derby unless he has an absolute chance to win it.
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I use Beyer Figures as a tool, but I don't need them to build my confidence up. I think I've got a horse that does what he has to do to win and not a lot more. From what I've seen of the races this year, Cause to Believe is in the hunt. He has shown as much or more than a lot of horses that are being considered.