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REAL QUIET
Owner: Mike Pegram
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Kent Desormeaux
Career Earnings: $1,969,923
Barn: Churchill Downs until June 3 then in barn 9 at Belmont Park
- Purchased by Mike Pegram for $17,000 as a yearling at the 1996 Keeneland September sale. His sire is Quiet American, winner of the 1990 NYRA Mile at Aqueduct, and dam Really Blue is by Believe It.
- Seattle Slew, the 1977 Triple Crown winner, was also purchased for a bargain price as a yearling -- $17,500.
- Attempts to become racing's 12th Triple Crown winner.
- Thirteen horses that entered the Belmont Stakes with victories in the first two legs failed in the third leg, including the Baffert-trained Silver Charm last year.
- Received his nickname "Fish" as a foal because of the narrowness of his body from a front view, just like a tropical fish.
- Breeder Eduardo Gaviria of Little Hill Farm sent Real Quiet to the University of Florida veterinary center when he was a yearling to correct his poor conformation. Screws were implanted in both of his knees with attached wires in an attempt to force growth in the preferred direction. The wires and screws were removed after six months. This procedure is akin to putting braces on a person's teeth. "It's a very minor procedure; it's no big deal," Baffert said. "It's the type of move you make with larger horses. Whoever did it did a great job because I couldn't see the scars. Indian Charlie had the same thing done to him without the wires.
- On a videotape for the Blood-Horse Baffert did a conformation tutorial and used Real Quiet as an example when the colt was a two-year-old. On the tape he forgave Real Quiet's not-so perfect conformation and said the colt's future would be as a distance runner.
- As Baffert did with Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm, who finished second to Touch Gold in the Belmont Stakes, Real Quiet will arrive in New York on Wednesday before the race. Following the Preakness Real Quiet trained at Churchill Downs, like Silver Charm did last year.
- After four starts under a mile, Real Quiet was raced around two turns and scored the first victory of his career in a mile-and-a-sixteenth race at Santa Anita last year. He was beaten in two starts at a small track in New Mexico, the Downs at Santa Fe, when he was 2.
- He ended the first season with his first stakes victory in the Hollywood Futurity.
- Since an eighth-place finish in the slop in the Golden Gate Derby earlier this year, Real Quiet has finished first or second in four starts.
- Real Quiet races with a shadow roll and blinkers.
- His groom Saul Mancilla assumed the role of caring for the colt by default, explained Baffert head assistant Eoin Harty in a Blood-Horse article. "When he got back to California (after losing at the Downs at Santa Fe), none of the grooms wanted him. That's how Saul got him. By default."
- Real Quiet will be stabled in the same barn (9) as Silver Charm was last year.
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