JOCKEY QUOTES

            JUAN HERNANDEZ, BIG SWITCH, WINNER: “I think she likes the dirt better.  The last time she was on the turf and bobbled at the break.  I had to use her to recover and she was flat after that.  She never accelerated.  She seemed like she loved the dirt.  She was very happy and comfortable today.  She broke sharp today and I was able to give her a clear trip.  At the five-eighths, she did the rest. She took the lead and never stopped from there.”

TRAINER QUOTES

         JOHN SADLER, BIG SWITCH, WINNER: “It’s great, she (Melair) was a great filly and kind of really launched my career early on. Kind of fitting this year Marianne Millard, one of the breeders she passed about a month ago, so it’s kind of all the culmination of the trained early and the owners. She was a great mare so its fun to win this.

“She won her first two, she’s run five times, won two stakes. She didn’t like the grass the other day. Sometimes, you have to try. We’ve got a lot of turf races so, we kind of put a line through that and then I got her ready for this one.  She’s a nice filly, I think she’s going to be good as she goes on. She’s a nice, big, beautiful filly, so I think there’s a lot more there to work with.

“She’ll get a chance, we have all these Cal-bred rules…We will figure out the best spots for her but I think down the line she will run in open company.”

OWNER QUOTES

GEORGE KRIKORIAN, BIG SWITCH, WINNER: “Mr. Big is a really good stallion, he moves the mares up and has produced a lot of nice winners. Big Switch has a two-year-old sister that is right behind her.

“She won nice and easy, and she looks beautiful. She is so good to look at.”

            NOTES: The winning owner/breeder is George Krikorian.