Big Sweep © Benoit Photo

FLAVIEN PRAT (Big Sweep, winner) – “It was a good race for us; she broke well and traveled well all the way around. She was relaxed in the early part, then at the half-mile (pole) she began to pick it up. I hit her with the whip one time, but that was it. She gave me a good kick.”

MARK GLATT (Big Sweep, winner) – “The cutback in distance certainly helped today, but this filly will go long, she’ll get a distance. She might run long on the dirt, but if it turns out that she’s just a really good sprinter, so be it. But we’re pretty anxious to get her on the grass. Flavien (Prat) thinks the dirt seems to get away from her a little bit and with a little more sure footing on the turf she might be even better.”

FRACTIONS:  :22.83  :46.63  1:11.74  1:24.44

The stakes wins was the first of the meet for rider Prat and his second in the Fleet Treat. (He won last year’s running on Hollywood Hills.) He now has 45 stakes wins at Del Mar.

The stakes win was the first of the meet for trainer Glatt and his second in the Fleet Treat (2012 with Starlight Magic). He now has nine stakes wins at Del Mar.

The owners of Big Sweep are Jed Cohen (Red Baron’s Barn) and his son Tim (Rancho Temescal) from Encino, CA.