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Article: It's A.P. Indy vs. Pine Bluff in a toss-up
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1992
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Jockey Craig Perret shared his thoughts on tomorrow's Belmont
Stakes, and he thinks the race is a toss-up between A.P. Indy and
Pine Bluff.
"It's really that close," Perret said. "A.P. Indy is on top of
his game and the way Pine Bluff won the Preakness and the way he
worked for me the other morning, he's ready."
Perret knows Pine Bluff better than anybody. He's ridden him
seven times and won the Remsen and Nashua stakes. However, he
failed with him in the Kentucky Derby.
Perret opted to ride Alydeed in the Preakness because he had
given trainer Ray Attfield his word.
The Pine Bluff folks didn't get mad. They chose Chris McCarron
to ride their colt in the Preakness and he ...