Racing
Swift Dragon wins AQUIS QTIS Jewel 2YO: Post Race Trainer and Jockey Quotes
Trainer and jockey quotes after the AQUIS QTIS Jewel 2YO at the Gold Coast on Saturday taken out by Swift Dragon.
Race Result:1st: Swift Dragon (L Birchley/R Wiggins) - $192nd: Esperanza (R Lipp/A Jones) - $4
3rd: Better Blitzem (G Holt/A Holt) - $8
Winning Time: 1:12.10 Last 600m: 36.94
Margins: 1L x 1L
"That was so good. We struck a couple of offish tracks at Eagle Farm, so we were happy to get the horse onto a better surface today. His trial before he came back showed what he could do, but we just didn't have any confidence in the track first-up because the rain made it so shifty. These bigger horses don't let down on those tracks sometimes. Last start it was much the same, but today was a different story."
"I got a bit worried when it started raining yesterday, but luckily they didn't get too much and it hasn't affected the track too badly. I had full confidence in the horse as long as the track was playing fair and we could get a crack at them."
"It's been a good year so far and long may it continue."
Winning Jockey: Ryan Wiggins
"I was on him when he won his first start at Rockhamton, and he won like a good horse that day. I thought he was going to be a handy horse and I was hoping he would go to the next level, but his last two starts have been a bit mediocre. But the soft track at Eagle Farm wasn't to his liking, because you can't get your toe into the ground whereas here you can. I've been riding him in his work and he hasn't missed a beat. And if you want to be riding two-year-old and three-year-old horses, you want them to be trained by Liam [Birchley]. The horse was definitely on song today."
"I was worried I went too early but he was travelling so well, which he hadn't done so far this prep."
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