Pletcher full of praise for True North winner Caixa Eletronica

Pletcher full of praise for True North winner Caixa

Eletronica

Pletcher has plenty of options with Caixa Eletronica, who pushed his career

record to 18 wins from 54 lifetime starts, with seven seconds, 11 thirds and

$1,395,705 in earnings.

"He's literally one of those horses that you can say could run in any race

coming up on the dirt," he said. "Everybody wants to talk about what's bad about

the game; he's everything that's good about horse racing. He's durable, he's

consistent. He came from nowhere, with a thousand-dollar stud fee, maybe. It

shows you a horse from that type of background can come up and compete at the

highest level with horses that cost millions of dollars. He's a cool horse."

Pletcher hopes to still have an impact on the three-year-old division,

though. Although he said neither Algorithms or El Padrino are likely to return

to racing until the fall, he is thinking of the Grade 1 Travers on August 25 at

Saratoga for Grade 1 winner Gemologist.

The sophomore son of Tiznow suffered his first career loss in the Kentucky

Derby on May 5, and came out of the race with a foot injury that has kept him on

the sidelines. He is back in Pletcher's barn and is likely to get his first

breeze back this week.

"He was at (owner) WinStar (Farm) for about 2 1/2 weeks, three weeks after

the Derby," Pletcher explained. "He had a foot bruise. I don't know if he

stepped on something or what happened, but two days after the Derby he was

pretty lame. He's back in training; he just hasn't breezed yet. We'll look at

the Travers and maybe the (Grade 2) Jim Dandy (on July 28 at Saratoga) or (Grade

1) Haskell (on July 29 at Monmouth Park) before it."