GRADE III, $100,000 SAN MARCOS STAKES QUOTES

JOCKEY QUOTES

JOEL ROSARIO, MISSED THE CUT, WINNER: “You never know. He seemed like he was fine being on the inside and that’s where I ended up turning for home, I had plenty of horse under me and I was just waiting to see when we were going to go.”

TRAINER QUOTES JOHN SADLER, MISSED THE CUT, WINNER: “He’s been training really well and he ran a really good race in the San Gabriel (second, Dec. 26). We knew that more distance, any distance that is long distance is right up his alley, so going a mile and a quarter today, I felt good about that. We got the works in before the rain so, having come from Europe, running on different surfaces maybe the softer turf wasn’t going to bother him, so we are happy. There’s a little talk around his ownership group saying, ‘We’d like to go to the Royal Ascot with him in June.’”

NOTES: The winning owners are Bee Zee LLC, Lanes End Racing, St. Elias Stables, LLC, Edward Babington, Edward Hudson, Jr., and Lynne Hudson.