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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
course delivered obviously terrific took
Obviously she had a terrific trip. She took to the turf course here well and delivered a big race.
decision final kentucky run
No final decision has been made. He is going to come here with the possibility he could run in the Kentucky Derby. We will make the decision from here.
consistent durable gave horse type
Pollard was tough, durable and consistent -- a real warrior, the type of horse everyone would want to own. He gave you everything he had.
generally lead reasons successful team thinking wants
One of the reasons why we're a successful team is that we're generally on the same page. It's not very often that we go to the paddock and I'm thinking I want to go to the lead and he's thinking he wants to come from last.