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Jigsaw wins Yulong VOBIS Gold Sprint: Post Race Trainer and Jockey Quotes
Trainer and jockey quotes following (horse name) winning the Yulong VOBIS Gold Sprint at Caulfield on Saturday.
Race Result:1st: Jigsaw (C Alderson/L Bates) - $2.60 fav2nd: She's Bulletproof (C Littlefield/B Melham) - $5.50
3rd: Ndola (B,W&JD Hayes/L Currie) - $2.80
Winning Time: 1:08.83 Last 600m: NA
Margins: 3-1/2 x 3/4L
VOBIS Gold Sprint| Jigsaw
The last start Group 1 winner POWERS clear in the VOBIS Gold Sprint, winning emphatically
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Winning Trainer: Cindy Alderson
On the performance and the horse: "It's quite unbelievable, he just continues to impress me every time he comes to the races.
"Each time he seems to get better and better. I mean, I just couldn't believe he put that field away with that weight, as comfortably as he did.
"It's a fabulous combination, he and Logan. I don't think it's ever going get repeated, they just seem to give each other, you know.
"But I'm just incredibly grateful to everybody around me that supported me and helped me along this way."
What has he done for Logan Bates' career: "That's a good question. He'll probably know what a good horse feels like, that's one thing for sure.
"It's actually quite interesting because early doors he and Jigsaw did not get along very well at all.
"If it's done anything for Logan, it's taught him how to deal with a horse and get the best out of them and that's a really big skill for any jockey to have – to go with the horse and not fight it.
Does he back-up in the William Reid Stks: "We had originally thought we might go just straight to the William Reid and then I looked at the weather map and a few other things and I thought, no we'll go here.
"I did say to Logan if he was going alright to not knock him around at the end because we did have that.
"But 1:08, that's a pretty phenomenal time with that weight."
Winning Jockey: Logan Bates
On the horse: "He's a ripper. I can't thank Cindy, (owner) Marcus Price and all involved with the horse enough, and even the horse, for what he's done for my career.
"To be associated with them, I'm very grateful.
What has he taught him?:"Just to read your horses and find out what makes them tick and be their friend and help them along.
"We had a few dust-ups with each other when we were both a bit younger and it's good to see us come to the fore later in life and build a partnership like this."
On the path he plotted: "I pretty much stayed in the lane that I was in and used the corner and sort of cut through a couple lanes and then came back out again into the preferred ground.
"It felt like there was an imaginary rail there the way that he did corner and I was a little bit worried that he might get a little bit lost out there, because that is one of his assets, but he was just the ultimate professional.
"I know he was running 1:08, but he did it fairly easily and he's done it with 61 and he felt like he had a little bit left in the tank, too.
"It's exciting, Cindy's got plenty of places to go forward with him and it's just great to be associated with him.
Should be back up in the William Reid: "One hundred percent, I reckon. Off that, and the way he's coming back now, he actually nearly dropped me, he shied at something that I didn't spot and that goes to show me that it didn't really touch him very much inside.
"Look, I'll leave it to Cindy, but I'll be all for coming back."
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