Post-race quotes from the connections of The Pamplemousse
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from the Santa Anita website:
Jockey quotes
ALEX SOLIS, THE PAMPLEMOUSSE, WINNER: Ive never ridden anything like him. The way hes been training, I expected something like this. He has such a high cruising speed and hes getting more and more amazing. He has such a good mind and he was real relaxed the whole way. If you want to get an idea of how hell do going a mile and a quarter, I switched to my left stick and hit him one time at the eighth pole and he just took off. Hes unbelievable.
Trainer quotes
JULIO CANANI, THE PAMPLEMOUSSE, WINNER: Im always nervous (before a race), whether Im running a $10,000 claimer, Im nervous anyway, because its in my blood.
Told the fractions were moderate: Time only counts to get out of jail, so whatever happens, slow track or fast track, its life.
Asked how impressed he was when the Pamplemousse drew out in the stretch: He is a nice horse. Every race, this horse is improving more. The Santa Anita Derby ($750,000, Grade I, 1 1/8 miles on April 4) is his next race.
Jockey quotes
ALEX SOLIS, THE PAMPLEMOUSSE, WINNER: Ive never ridden anything like him. The way hes been training, I expected something like this. He has such a high cruising speed and hes getting more and more amazing. He has such a good mind and he was real relaxed the whole way. If you want to get an idea of how hell do going a mile and a quarter, I switched to my left stick and hit him one time at the eighth pole and he just took off. Hes unbelievable.
Trainer quotes
JULIO CANANI, THE PAMPLEMOUSSE, WINNER: Im always nervous (before a race), whether Im running a $10,000 claimer, Im nervous anyway, because its in my blood.
Told the fractions were moderate: Time only counts to get out of jail, so whatever happens, slow track or fast track, its life.
Asked how impressed he was when the Pamplemousse drew out in the stretch: He is a nice horse. Every race, this horse is improving more. The Santa Anita Derby ($750,000, Grade I, 1 1/8 miles on April 4) is his next race.
Comments
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Most impressive 3 yo I have seen this year so far, just wait till he hits the real dirt might run away like Pegasus. He moves to the top of my Derby 5. He ran the Sham race almost two seconds faster than Magnum did in the San Antonio.
FB
This may be the first time I made a future worth while :clap2:
While I agree that it is a disadvantage for a runner to enter the derby having never run on dirt, I find it hard to believe that you can't consider him a serious contender.
He has already answered distance questions with an impressive 1 1/8 victory in which he opened up on the field in the stretch after quick splits. He's growing and maturing work by work and race by race. It doesn't look like he has peaked yet. We already know he can rate as he sat off the pace to defeat Mayor Marv in his maiden victory (which flatters the Pamplemousse even more as Mayor Marv won the TUP Derby with ease). The Sham was the only 3yo prep where I said to myself after the race, "that horse can win the derby".
Going into the derby every horse has one or more questions. Can he rate? will he be too far back? Will he like dirt? Is the distance too much? Did he have enough races? Did he already peak? etc.
I'll take the Pamplemousse at the moment as he has answered every question but one (Y)
We all have our opinions and angles we play and I can tell you one thing, last year at the Derby I caught Intangaroo at 14-1 going from all weather to dirt and then caught her back at the Spa on the dirt again. I made a nice score on Saturday with Snapshot at the Stream hitting the real dirt for the first time and I go a gift at 6-1 with him off three bullet breezes at Payson Park, when he hit the gulfstream surface he just ran away and hid from them. I played Colonel John last year over Big Brown and the only reason I did that was the 20 hole for Big Brown, still kicking myself in the ass on that derby wager. Right now to me the Derby is still wide open but I think the winner will come from Cali this year and it might not be PON or The Pample. As DC stated below Street Sense had a poly race and so did Hard Spun that year, good horses can run on anything.
FB
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A majority of those handicappers are awful. We'll see where my boy Jeff Seagull from HRTV has The Pamplemousse come his show thursday. Guarentee he'll be top 3...where he belongs.
Agreed. Jill Byrne should not even have checkmark selections on TVG. The checkmark simply falls on the chalk 7 out of 8 races. The other race it will fall on a middle priced horse that will run off the board. Mr. B is another flash player, not to mention the fact that just hearing him talk puts me to sleep.