Ron Flatter
speaker
591 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Ron Flatter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They do that on purpose.
They don't want the three-year-olds to do a mile and a quarter before they get to the Kentucky Derby.
Most of them prep a mile and an eighth.
Some of them who go through Louisiana go a mile and three-sixteenths, and that's kind of our golden tempo.
In fact, went a mile and three-sixteenths last race before he went to
win in the Kentucky Derby.
So that's just kind of how the magic of it.
Well, what we were told was that it was a rigorous campaign to get to and win the Kentucky Derby.
They felt like he wasn't a horse who could come back successfully in two weeks.
It's the same thing.
I mean, I pointed out in something I wrote a couple weeks ago that when you hear this story, that it's almost like there's a boilerplate message that's put out by the trainers who use the same language talking about how it was a tough campaign and this was our big goal and we'll see you at the Belmont.
And God bless everybody in the Preakness, and it's almost like you can fill in the name of the horse.
Sovereignty last year, Rich Strike 2022, now Golden Tempo.
So that's what you often hear.
He seems fit.
He's supposed to be lining up in the Belmont.
They just decided two weeks was too quick.
Yes, absolutely.
I do.
Three weeks, I don't know.
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