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KENTUCKY OAKS THEY SAID IT MAY 3, 2013 "We set a fast pace and she is lightly raced. It looked like she was going easy but when they posted the fractions I thought, 'Oh, we're going pretty fast.' And she got pretty tired. We had an inside post, so we had to go with her." —trainer Bob Baffert on his Kentucky Oaks 139 fifth-placer MIDNIGHT LUCKY "I had a good trip. My horse broke right on the top, really good. I tried to settle the pace, but I had a little pressure. I was really comfortable in the beginning with my horse. By the half-mile pole, she was getting tired. She didn't have any excuses." —jockey Rafael Bejarano, who had piloting duties aboard Midnight Lucky "I wasn't all that worried about where she was sitting. It didn't look like the racetrack much backed up to us here. She'll live to fight another day. It was a tough field." —Ken McPeek, conditioner of Pure Fun who ran sixth in the Oaks "That was the plan to be that far back. By the quarter-pole she got me back to them but then she just kind of flattened out in the straight. She just didn't have much more after that, but she ran OK. That was a very tough field." —Julien Leparoux, who piloted Pure Fun, agreeing with McPeek about the competitiveness of Friday's Oaks "She would up being back a little further than I thought she would. You never know what's going to happen when you're in that post position but, ideally, I would've liked to have seen her closer. He (jockey Joel Rosario) thought as fast as they were going he'd be OK where he was at but, I'm not sure, I think maybe the filly got a little discouraged." —trainer Bill Mott on Oaks seventh Close Hatches' run in the Oaks "I had a perfect trip. I thought she was going to be fine, but when it was time to go, she didn't have it. She'll be fine next time." —Rosario giving his take about Close Hatches' effort in the Oaks "I had a good trip. Just got outrun. No excuse." —jockey Calvin Borel on Rose to Gold's eighth-place finish in the Oaks "That was a very, very tough race. A 38-1 horse won it. The thing I can say, the horse has run consistently all her life. I don't know what happened." —conditioner Bernie Flint after Seaneen Girl checked in a well-beaten ninth in the Oaks "I really had a great trip. She was kind of worked up in the post parade, and we were in a great spot, but I had her a little close for her considering the pace was so hot. But you know, she kind of got worked up with the crowd." —Rosie Napravnik, who had riding duties aboard Seaneen Girl "She was handling everything fine until the half-mile pole. She was a little rank with me early on and started struggling with the surface from the three-eighths pole on. She's probably better left on turf." —jockey Gary Stevens on Oaks 10th and last-place finisher Silsita; the filly is stablemate to winner Princess of Sylmar and was the only one to beat her in terms of long odds as the 48-1 longest shot on the board
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