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"He was the Derby favorite going in and he's the Derby favorite coming out!"
That's pretty much how trainer Todd Pletcher summed up Uncle Mo's 3-year-old debut, an easy 3 3/4-length victory over a game but overmatched Rattlesnake Bridge in Saturday's inaugural edition of Gulfstream Park's $100,000 Timely Writer.
Making his first start since sewing up the 2-year-old divisional title with a similarly easy one-sided victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Uncle Mo broke a step slow from his inside post and bumped briefly with Gallant Dreams before recovering quickly to control the pace while kept off the rail by jockey John Velazquez. Uncle Mo set slow fractions of 25.53 seconds, 49.58 and 1:13.69 while stalked by Rattlesnake Bridge from the outset.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown2011/news/story?id=6211049
That's pretty much how trainer Todd Pletcher summed up Uncle Mo's 3-year-old debut, an easy 3 3/4-length victory over a game but overmatched Rattlesnake Bridge in Saturday's inaugural edition of Gulfstream Park's $100,000 Timely Writer.
Making his first start since sewing up the 2-year-old divisional title with a similarly easy one-sided victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Uncle Mo broke a step slow from his inside post and bumped briefly with Gallant Dreams before recovering quickly to control the pace while kept off the rail by jockey John Velazquez. Uncle Mo set slow fractions of 25.53 seconds, 49.58 and 1:13.69 while stalked by Rattlesnake Bridge from the outset.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown2011/news/story?id=6211049
