Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcheris a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. His horse Super Saver won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the first of his 24 horses entered in his career to win the Run for the Roses. He also won the 2007 Belmont Stakes with filly Rags to Riches and the 2013 Belmont Stakes with Palace Malice...
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Date of Birth26 June 1967
best consistent delivering key mature older performance race rate saying seems
I think this is probably the best race she's ever run, which is saying a lot because she's been such a very good, consistent mare. It seems like the older she gets, and more mature she gets, she seems to be able to rate better and better. And that was the key to delivering this performance today.
close forward might
He has a forward style. He might not be on the lead, but he'll be close to the pace.
exactly fresh horse ran
He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.
best certainly horse lead letting likely maybe pace run scenario somebody wants
He can run from off the pace if we need to do that, but maybe letting him be a free-running horse is his best style. We're certainly not going to try to take him off the pace. The most likely scenario is he's going to be on the lead, but if somebody else wants the lead then that's fine, too.
asked confidence gets horses ride seven six total
He gets on six or seven horses a day and joked about a comeback. He asked to ride this one, and I have total confidence in him.
lost ran
He lost a lot of ground. I thought he ran a big race.
good handle lost pivotal point position second time
He lost all position at a pivotal point in the race. He just didn't handle the second turn. But if there is a good time to get beat, this was one of them.
appreciate longer might stretch
He might appreciate the longer stretch at Hawthorne.
help impressed looks rates stretch
What impressed me was he looks like he's kind and rates well, and that should help him stretch out.
best distance good stretch
His best distance is probably a mile-and?an-eighth to a mile-and-a-quarter. It's good to see that we can stretch him out from here.
beat emotions identify mile mixed quarter though whether
At the end of the (Wood), he was still only beat two lengths. Even though he tired, I've got some mixed emotions on whether going a mile and a quarter is what we should do. By the same token, I'm not able to identify why we should not necessarily go.
except hoped
He accomplished everything we hoped for except winning.
continued develop fall handicap horse last moving races ran top toward
He ran much-improved races last fall and has continued to develop physically. They stamped him as a horse moving toward the top of the handicap division.
happens somewhere
If it happens fine, if it doesn't then we'll go on somewhere else.