La Troienne winner Played Hard faces Secret Oath in Ogden Phipps

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00:00Phil Bauer and Rigney Racing celebrated an unforgettable Kentucky Derby weekend when

00:08their filly played hard, defeated Secret Oath, and the Grade 1 La Troyenne.

00:12This weekend, the daughter of Entomischief will go head-to-head with Secret Oath once

00:16again in the Grade 1 Ogden Fiffs.

00:19Here Bauer tells us more about his stable star and a few other recent Rigney Racing

00:23winners.

00:26Played hard.

00:28We purchased her at the September yearling sale and she was one that you immediately

00:34fell in love with.

00:35It was such a special day.

00:37The La Troyenne was, I guess, a dream come true.

00:41You know, Johnny wrote her great and when Secret Oath came to her at the eighth pole,

00:46you could tell it was going to take a lot to get by the way she was digging in.

00:51We were upstairs so we were unaware that there was a jockey's objection because we were stuck

00:56in an elevator and we came out and it was a little confusion at first like what's going

01:01on and by that time I think it was pretty much already decided that it would be no change

01:07and the celebration began.

01:10She bounced out of the race doing great.

01:13We originally thought, well, let's just come back on the floor to Lee.

01:16At the end of the Churchill meet and, you know, the Ogden Fifths, we kept an eye on

01:22it and the fact that she's got the grade one, we felt like the big picture, if we can win

01:31or be extremely competitive in it, it's only going to help her credentials.

01:36We're confident she'll take her game with her.

01:39Kedra, she was a relief for me.

01:43We felt so confident going into the Breeders' Cup last year and to run as bad as she did

01:49was just a hard pill to swallow.

01:52She came back much more mature physically and mentally and we were anxious to get our

01:59start in her and hoping that she would return to form.

02:02So when she did, it was just like a sigh of relief.

02:07Warrior Johnny ran Sunday very similar to horse that's got, you know, a lot of ability

02:12and he's gotten stronger and hopefully another one that just, you know, being a gelding,

02:19hopefully he's around for many years.

02:22It's just so satisfying and very, very happy for the Wrigley's for what they've put in

02:29the game.

02:30It's long overdue and hopefully many more to come.

02:35We started in the fall of 2013.

02:39We hit some rough years early on trying to find our stride and how the program wanted

02:45to work.

02:46So I'm very fortunate and blessed that they stuck with me.

02:52Played hard, the name came from their model of life is if you lived well, you played hard

02:58and they enjoy life.

03:02At the same time, they made everyone's lives around them better.

03:06They're very important people in our lives and he's one of my best friends.

03:12I don't know if I'll ever be able to top the feeling of our first grade one being at home

03:18and with the cast that Richard had present at the races, obviously win a grade one at

03:25Belmont on Belmont day would be surreal as well.

03:29What we've done so far this year, you know, you win a grade one, you doesn't get much

03:34better than that.

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