Garrett Gomez, (jockey, Midshipman, 1st) - "He broke running. He's a big, long-striding horse; he's a young horse and a little timid. My main objective was to get along with him as good as possible and give him the smoothest trip I could. Actually, I had a little trouble on the first turn.

"I was trying to get him to settle down a little bit. He was a little keen, and every time I tried to touch his mouth, he threw his head in my lap a little bit. I had to finesse him a little bit around the first turn. When I got him slowed down, I just slowly gave it to him and let him do his own thing and find a good rhythm and get into a nice long stride.

"Turning for home, I asked him to start accelerating, he answered all the right questions. He went about his business really well and hung on against a really nice racehorse."

Bob Baffert (trainer, Midshipman, 1st) - "You think you want to plan it that way and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. The plan worked to get him out there. I liked his draw. He's broken well in all of his races. It put him in the race early. It got him cruising. There wasn't a ridiculous pace or anything like that.

"You don't know, but you're just hoping that when he kicks for home that he's the real deal and he showed he was."

Rafael Bejarano (jockey, Square Eddie, 2nd) - "My horse tried to go to the lead and I tried to get him to relax. The other horse on the outside of me (Midshipman) was putting pressure on me, so I got him to relax a little and I was comfortable behind the speed. He never quit running. He tried very hard."

Leandro Mora (assistant to trainer Doug O'Neill, Square Eddie, 2nd) - "That was phenomenal. I didn't want him that close to the lead, but he broke super. I give credit to Garrett Gomez for keeping his horse where he was. In the stretch, I thought he had a chance to go by, but he hesitated because the winner was too close to the rail. But I was pleased. He ran a huge race."

According to Mora, O'Neill went to the hospital earlier in the day with a case of the Chicken Pox.

Alex Solis (jockey, Street Hero, 3rd) - "I liked my position all the way around there. I knew we weren't going that fast and I liked where I was. At the five-sixteenths (pole), I thought I was going to the lead, but that other horse (winner Midshipman) kept on going. He ran too fast and slipped away from us. My horse ran well; really well. I think he's going to be a hell of a 3-year-old."

Myung Kwon Cho (trainer, Street Hero, 3rd) - "I was very excited when he was close up. The jockey (Alex Solis) said he thought farther would be better for him. He tired a little in the stretch, but we are proud of him."

Jamie Theriot (jockey, Terrain, 4th) - "He ran well. He got to looking around a bit and was a little intimidated when we got in close quarters on the first turn. He's been doing that. I talked to Al (trainer Stall Jr.) about it and we said he might need blinkers. We were thinking about it for this race, but it was too big to be making changes. We said we'd just leave him alone this time. But I think we'll try them on him now. He's been getting beat three or four lengths and I think they (blinkers) will move him up that much."