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Posted: Mon 14:24, 12 Aug 2013 Post subject: 'Wasn't going to come here and melt down'-spun2 Ni |
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'Wasn't likely to come here and melt down'
LOUISVILLE,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ky. (AP)
(Eds: With AP Photos,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].)By JIM LITKEAP Sports Columnist Everyone knows Mario Gutierrez now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
But a half-dozen years back, well before anyone within the thoroughbred game knew much about him, the Canadian horsemen who discovered the promising teenage rider at a dusty track in Mexico knew Gutierrez already possessed an unusual gift:
No matter the race, he always seemed to have some horse left within the stretch.
Therefore it happened again Saturday, when the 25-year-old Kentucky Derby rookie coaxed another gear from I'll Have Another for any sizzling stretch drive and roared past Bodemeister within the final furlong at Churchill Downs. Merely a year ago, Gutierrez watched the race at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, Canada, wondering if his title as leading rider at the out-of-the-way circuit would lead anywhere.
''Top trainers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], top owners, obviously, they're not going to know anything about me,'' Gutierrez said.
''But I'm glad this happened in my experience. I believe we all need opportunity and great things sometimes happens. . The horse is so professional, so I prepare myself to become at the same level because the horse.
''This may be the great opportunity of my life. I wasn't going to come here and melt down,'' he said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ''that's without a doubt.''
Not after the odyssey Gutierrez endured simply to reach the starting gate. He was raised in Veracruz, Mexico,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the son of a quarterhorse trainer and jockey, and climbed in to the saddle at 12. The youngster competed in match races at 14 after which convinced his parents to let him proceed to Mexico City after he finished senior high school, hoping to hone his skills against tougher jockeys for bigger purses.
It had been there, in 2006, that Glenn Todd and Troy Taylor spotted Gutierrez, offered him a job at the Hastings track, and became his second family.
''We liked him right from the start,'' Taylor told the North park Union-Tribune earlier this week. ''He's such a great kid, and that he can really ride.''
Despite the fact that Gutierrez was under contract to Taylor and Todd, they knew he was ready for bigger challenges and set him as well as well-known jockey agent Ivan Puhich. Soon after, Doug O'Neill,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trainer of I'll Have Another, was having lunch using the colt's owner,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Paul Reddam,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and deciding where to run the horse.
''But we're not getting (Rafael) Bejarano or (Joel) Rosario, who do you want to get?'' O'Neill recalled their conversation.
''Just once we were talking, Mario won a race. Paul said, `Who is that kid?' I knew his agent. I knew Ivan had him. I couldn't pick Mario from a lineup at that time. I'd him come work the colt. They were given along beautiful. Paul said, `Let's give the kid an opportunity.' ''
They did for that Robert Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita in February, in which the chestnut colt's cheap price - I'll Have Another sold for $11,000 as a yearling - and the still-unknown jockey combined to transmit him off at 43-1. After the upset win there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I'll Have Another pushed off favorite Creative Cause in the Santa Anita Derby recently, beginning to make a name for both himself and his rider.
Now O'Neill is simply hoping that Gutierrez ''doesn't get too big to where we can't get him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].''
''Usually what goes on with one of these jockeys,'' he added. ''They (get) very popular and you're like, `Wait a second,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], have you ignore us, Mario?'''
But it's tough to imagine that happening with Gutierrez in the near future. Asked whether he received any advice from his fellow jockeys in front of what appeared like an enormous step-up in class, he replied, ''I came here focused. I came here prepared. I understand this really is huge. I did my homework on my own.''
As for whether those self same jocks have advice for him now, Gutierrez demurred again. ''I haven't talked following the race with any other jockey,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so I don't know what they're likely to say.''
The things they should say is ''great ride'' and then leave it at this. No Derby winner had ever range from No. 19 post on the far outside, but Gutierrez was smart enough to allow I'll Have Another ease in to the race and then pick his spots.
''He's so smart, he is doing everything pretty well. I simply waited for him, push him a little bit to possess that spot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then from then on, was from the horse,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],'' Gutierrez said.相关的主题文章:
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