JOCKEY QUOTES

       JOE BRAVO, SMUGGLER’S RUN, WINNER: “It’s pretty nice when they run like that. I don’t even have a piece of dirt on me, do I? It’s kind of nice when you have a horse like that. Broke good, clean break and sat off the backside. You know when you have horse underneath you. He was just going really comfortably. I just tried to say out of this horse’s way, Baltas really had him ready today.

“The only concern I really had was that this horse had run mostly on the grass, and he had the one dirt race that was a win, but he really stepped up to the plate today, it was a nice effort. You have a lot more options when you go to enter one when you can run on both.”

            DIEGO HERRERA, MOOSE MITCHELL, SECOND PLACE: “He broke quite nicely, and we were doing well at the top. Our post position played a role in how the race played out, but at the end of the day the other horse was just better.”

TRAINER QUOTES

       RICHARD BALTAS, SMUGGLER’S RUN, WINNER: “This is (our) fourth opportunity with this horse and I have Kevin Nish to thank.  He made a trainer change and Alex Solis, Jr. brought the horse to us.  This horse is in great shape. There is nothing he can’t do.  He could run on grass, he could go longer and he could go two turns.  This horse is very rate-able.  He finishes all his works good. And he’s a Cal bred.”

NOTES: The winning owner/breeder is KMN Racing, LLC.