Uncle Mo’s Royal Slipper Shines at Keeneland

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00:00The Royal Slipper being by Uncle Mo, she has the physical attributes that kind of draw

00:13me to that sire's progeny.

00:17They're very, very quick and also highly intelligent horses.

00:22This filly came down from Dave Scanlon, he did a great job with her, told me she had

00:28some little antics to her and gave me a pretty good insight as to what we're going to have

00:32to start dealing with.

00:34She just came right around and did everything great and just took a little time mentally

00:40to come around.

00:41Physically, she's a big, imposing, fast-looking, sprinter-type filly.

00:45This filly is, you know, to look at her, if she was walking around across the street over

00:50there at the sales, it would certainly draw a lot of attention.

00:53She's got all the physical attributes of something, especially being by her sire, that you would

01:00be drawn to.

01:01There'd be a lot of people following her into the ring.

01:03We're looking forward to this race and was very concerned about the one hole.

01:09Sometimes you get off a step slow, especially with a filly as fast as she looked at going

01:13into the race, it was like it could be a disaster, but Johnny Velasquez broke on top and away

01:19he went.

01:20Well, she kind of scooted away from there early to where Johnny was able to give her

01:23a breather, the better part of the race, to where he just kind of sat on her.

01:26When he turned for home, he kind of just niggled at her a little bit and off she went again

01:30and he just sat there.

01:32It's exactly what you want to see for a first-time starter.

01:35You just want everything to go right the first part, and then the last part, she had a really

01:40easy win, which sort of helps you moving forward.

01:45We're looking at a few races.

01:46We're looking at a race down in Del Mar that's 7.8s, which is certainly within her realm

01:51of distance capabilities.

01:55As she showed in her race, we're really looking forward to this filly.

01:58She's got a big future.

02:00The Oklahomas are very smart, highly intelligent horses.

02:03They certainly are fast, that's something that attracts me to them.

02:07So this filly has everything that I'd look for in a racehorse.