"He ran a great race," said Hall of fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who won the Suburban in 1970 with Barometer. "Like Jerry (Bailey) said, he doesn't know if it because he put the stick away or the horse coming upside of him that made him come again. I always thought he could get a mile and a quarter." Frankel said that Peace Rules would now point for the Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney at Saratoga on Saturday, August 7th.
"He was giving me everything, so I went to the large hand ride," Bailey said. "I don't know if that helped or the horse creeping up on the outside, but we discussed leaving the rail open, so when he got attacked, it wouldn't be from the outside. I didn't know if that was the wise thing to do as we approached the eighth-pole - it looked like Funny Cide getting through was going to beat us. But Peace Rules as always been a fighter, very courageous."
Funny Cide, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner of a year ago, just lost the place but continues to be a factor in his races. "He is one of the most honest horses out there," said trainer Barclay Tagg, who had thought of running in the Hollywood Gold Cup next weekend. "It was a nice, dry day and the humidity was down. We were right here. I thought he might come back and run well in two weeks because he was doing so well. The only plane I could have gotten on to California (for the Hollywood Gold Cup) was on Tuesday, and I didn't want to go that early."
