Oaks They Said It

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OAKS THEY SAID IT

APRIL 30, 2010

Tidal Pool (inside blue) led the way in the Oaks before being passed late
(Neville Hopwood/Horsephotos.com)

“She ran a good race. She just got outrun, more than anything. When I called
on her she went about her business and just got outrun.”

jockey Calvin
Borel on Kentucky Oaks (G1) pacesetter TIDAL POOL (Yankee Gentleman), who
finished third

“We ran a hell of a race. We just weren’t good enough. Ran a good one.”

trainer
D. Wayne Lukas on Tidal Pool’s effort in the Oaks

“I had a really good trip until I got to the quarter-pole. At the
quarter-pole I got bounced around and it kind of cost me third place. It got
really tight and I went in between two horses and got bounced around. She really
ran great.”

jockey
Alex Solis describing his ride aboard Oaks fourth BEAUTICIAN (Dehere)

“She ran a good one. We knew we had to use her away from there to get some
position on that first turn and she got a little rank. But once she hit the
backside, she settled fine. She’s one-paced. She doesn’t have that burst. But
she kept trying. A couple of them went by her and she kept on. She didn’t give
it up. It was a good effort on her part.”

jockey
John Velazquez praising AILALEA’s
(Pulpit) fifth-place run in the Oaks

It was a tight finish between Blind Luck (outside) and
Evening Jewel on the wire
(Neville Hopwood/Horsephotos.com)

“She made a big move for me and I thought she was in good shape. But she got
tired. She just got tired. She ran out of gas.”

jockey Joel
Rosario on Santa Anita Oaks (G1) queen CRISP (El Corredor) finishing seventh in
the Kentucky Oaks

“Too wide. Way too wide. She lost too much ground to be competitive. When you
see the chart of the race, it’s going to say she was six wide, five wide, six
wide. You can’t win races like that.”

trainer
John Sadler on Crisp’s race

“It’s tough for me to see much on the first turn but I know she was on the
rail the whole way. It didn’t seem to be a horrible trip, though. I was asking a
lot; I knew we were asking a lot (from her). I’ll kind of back up now and
regroup and go a more conservative route. We kind of threw ourselves into this
by the way she was going. She had trained really good.”

trainer
Rusty Arnold on his charge IT’S TEA TIME (Dynaformer), who finished ninth in the
Kentucky Oaks in just her fourth career start

“I know what happened. She fell out of the gate and got shuffled back.”

trainer
Eric Guillot on CHAMPAGNE D’ORO (Medaglia d’Oro) running 11th in the Oaks