GRADE I, $300,000 AWESOME AGAIN STAKES

JOCKEY QUOTES

MARIO GUTIERREZ, SLOW DOWN ANDY, WINNER: “He’s always a good breaker. I think we took advantage of the good, clean break. He relaxed. I tried not to fight him, sometimes I fight him and he gives me his head, so my goal today was to let him run comfortable and it paid off.

“He’s becoming better with age. You can see it on his record. His last few races he’s just given us his all. Right now, he’s fit, he’s ready to run in the Breeders’ Cup.”

TRAINER QUOTES

DOUG O’NEILL, SLOW DOWN ANDY, WINNER: “First of all he is a super easy horse to train and I have to thank the people at OBR. Zillah does a lot of work along with Ocean Breeze, Carlos and Casey they do such a wonderful job. If they are all like him, it is about as easy as a job as you can get. He just goes out there and gives 100 percent every morning exercising. Tony Romero gets on him, he used to get on the great Lava Man and he says this horse is very special. Just to get a Grade I for Paul, Zillah, and for Andy and OBR it is really special.”

OWNER QUOTES

PAUL REDDAM, SLOW DOWN ANDY, WINNER: “I was kind of surprised, I thought everyone would try to go. The track has been pretty speed favorite all day and he just broke so smoothly that he was on top in three jumps and that worked out. “We are in for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.”

NOTES: The winning owners/breeders are Reddam Racing, LLC.