JOCKEY QUOTES

            UMBERTO RISPOLI, CHEWING GUM, WINNER: “The top of the stretch was easy. I got a hold of the horse, once I put his head in front of Beer Can Man, the other horse fought really hard on the inside and he was actually waiting for him, but he gave me that feeling that we could go. Even after the wire he kept a head in front of him just to get the job done by a small margin.

“He is the kind of horse that you have to kind of forget him the first part of the race and Mr. Mott gave me the instructions to be on the outside, and in the stretch I had that gap so I didn’t want to lose that chance. For the first part he needs to find his legs and find his rhythm. I would say the ground really, really helped him, he really enjoyed that.”

FLAVIEN PRAT, BEER CAN MAN, SECOND: “We got a good trip and he ran really great down the lane.  We just got unlucky at the end and just got beat.”

            NOTES: The winning owners are Pantofel Stable, Wachtel Stable and Jerold L. Zaro.