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
matured mentally physically
He's matured physically and mentally and handles the distance. He's the whole package.
step trying
We're just trying to take it one step at a time.
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.
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.
dandy dominate jim performance race time
I thought the Jim Dandy was a breakthrough performance for him. Any time you dominate a race like that I think it's a pretty big deal.
apart bay bluegrass committed logical month program running sam tampa
We are committed to the Tampa program for Bluegrass Cat. With him running so well in the Sam Davis, it was logical to come back. And with it being a month apart from the Tampa Bay Derby, it just all made a lot of sense. That part was easy.
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.
environment good racing
It's going to be great. As long as the racing surfaces are good and the saddling environment is okay, I'll be happy.
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.
against eighth horse mile order potential quarter race run stretch surprised
What this race will tell us is if we have the potential to stretch him out to a mile and an eighth or a mile and a quarter against the very best. I would be surprised if he didn't run well at a mile and a sixteenth. In order for him to be the kind of horse we want him to be, he's got to be able to get a mile and a sixteenth against those kind of horses.
alley dandy flower home hoped jim next performance
Everything unfolded the way we thought it would and the way we hoped it would. This was a home run. The Jim Dandy was the kind of performance that propelled Flower Alley to the next level.
energy good level looking race seemed since
The race (Davis) seemed to take nothing out of him and his energy level has been good since the race. It was just what we were looking for.