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
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.
appreciate longer might stretch
He might appreciate the longer stretch at Hawthorne.
affected performance
How much it affected his performance I don't know.
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.
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.
felt focused horse
I felt like if we can get this horse straightened away and focused and he matures, then he can be any kind of horse.
bonus distance runs six
Six furlongs is a better distance for him, and he's a New York-bred - he runs for bonus money.
close forward might
He has a forward style. He might not be on the lead, but he'll be close to the pace.
anyone bluegrass came cat comparison derby entry gone good hard horse johnny kentucky knows mile perfect stay training trains works
I don't want to get in the way of Johnny with his Kentucky Derby mounts. This was a particularly hard decision, because anyone who works or trains or is around Keyed Entry knows how good he is. You'd want to stay with a horse like that as long as possible. He's undefeated. He's training super. In a perfect world, Keyed Entry would already have gone two turns, so Johnny could have made a better comparison with Bluegrass Cat. Bluegrass Cat already has been a mile and an eighth, and he's already been a mile and a sixteenth this year. I think it came down to that.
lost ran
He lost a lot of ground. I thought he ran a big race.
although hurry precocious resting settled since
Since the sale, he's been at Ashford, resting and doing a little jogging. We're in no hurry with him, although I still think he's the precocious type. We're just going to let him get settled in and take it slow.
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.
exactly fresh horse ran
He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.
except hoped
He accomplished everything we hoped for except winning.