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Originally Posted by reckless
I'll never forget the post-race interview when trainer Alan Goldberg was asked: 'Did you think you'd have won the race if Dayjur didn't jump?', or words to that effect.
Like the nitwit that he is, Goldberg answered : 'Why, of course, she was getting to him.'
Safely Kept wasn't getting to him, for sure.
When that same question was immediately posed to winning jockey Craig Perret, the Cajun said: 'Nope. No way we'd win it. He had us beat.'
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I have that tape and I agree. Perret never got the respect I thought he deserved. SOLID rider best remembered from that great Derby with Unbridled.
That 1990 day was marred with so many breakdowns how could one forget it?