(Long Neck Paula wins the Bowman Mill at Keeneland on Saturday / All Photos by Coady Media)

Quotes from the $200,000 Bowman Mill

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Wesley Ward (winning trainer of Long Neck Paula)

On cross-entering her in both Friday’s Myrtlewood and the Bowman Mill but scratching her from the Myrtlewood

“We just got to handicapping the race here, and we kind of felt like this would be her best fit today. Luck was with us. She’s a very, very talented filly, very quick, very agile. I really look forward to next year; I think she’s going to really develop into a high-class, quality sprinter.”

Junior Alvarado (winning jockey)

“She broke very sharp, then I used her a little bit just to get my position going forward. I saw that (jockey) Luis Saez (aboard Macho Music) was intending to get the lead. He had to rush a little more at that point, so I was very happy where I was sitting with my filly. She was very good. By the time we hit the five-sixteenths pole I knew she was ready and we started picking it up little by little. I knew I had enough horse, and she held on all the way to the wire.”