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
asked entry gifted loads obviously willing
Keyed Entry is an exceptionally gifted horse. He's got loads of speed, he's very willing and he's obviously done everything we've asked him to do so far.
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.
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.
blue consistent decided grass hopefully likes train worked
I thought he worked real well. I think he really likes this track. We decided to train here because if you get rain, it's a little more consistent surface. And hopefully after the Blue Grass he'll be back here.
met point
We'll point for the Met Mile. That's been the plan.
belt help race run
We'll play things by ear. She hadn't run in a while, so having this race under her belt should help her.
fill hoping longer proven run
We were hoping that, as she got older, she would fill out and get stronger, ... Fortunately, that has been true. She has proven to run well at the longer distances.
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.
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.