Quotes

She’s matured a lot and she’s starting to grow and she has been working great. I saw her get away third and for three horses this was a tough race. There’s nothing easy about the races in California. She’s only run one bad race and that wasn’t her fault. I sent her back east when I should have kept her here for the Debutante. But hey, sometimes you call the play and it’s a fumble.”

Bob Baffert ,

These three-horse races are tricky. You can’t really tell what’s going to happen. She was in hand early, but got a bit tired late.”

Rafael Bejarano,

We were under pressure all the way. Not the best of circumstances.”

Flavien Prat,

She got away from there just a little bit awkwardly and we spotted them some. But that turned out to be a blessing. She got a little breather on the backside. Then that wind (coming into the stretch) was really bad.  Comes right at you. But she’s a good filly and she got it done.”

Drayden Van Dyke , Winner of the Dezi Arnaz Stakes at Del Mar

I had everything my way. I was out there galloping and he was nice and happy – he had his ears straight up. I figured once I got into him he would really explode, but he just stayed steady.”

Drayden Van Dyke , Rider of beaten favorite War of Will, who finished fourth