Wonder Wheel Prepares for Sophomore Debut

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00:00Breeders' Cup champion Wonder Wheel is set to make her three-year-old debut in the Suncoast Stakes.

00:08We visited her at Cassie Training Center ahead of Saturday's race.

00:12Wonder Wheel's Breeders' Cup really impressed me.

00:15She overcame so much.

00:17We knew there was a lot of speed, so we thought we'd be sitting maybe four or five lengths off the lead.

00:25When they went by me the first time, she wasn't running.

00:28And I was like, I can't believe it, because she had trained so good going into the race.

00:34And then I watched Tyler a few times.

00:38He kind of, he didn't check her, but he had to kind of stop her momentum.

00:42And then when he got through on the rail, you know, it was a great ride by Tyler,

00:46but it takes a super horse to do what, you know, go through where she went through.

00:50So, it still gives me chills when I watch it.

00:53And Wonder Wheel and Tyler Gasly-Old gets his first Breeders' Cup win.

00:59We brought Wonder Wheel down to Cassie Training Center after the Breeders' Cup.

01:04That's when, where we brought her last year after we bought her.

01:07We brought her here, we broke her, and, you know, she started her early training.

01:11We gave her some time off and started her back, and she's training super.

01:17She's a big, tall filly. She's almost 17 hands tall.

01:21I think she's filled out a little bit. She's not a big, robust filly.

01:25She's just tall, leggy.

01:27She had as good a work last week as I've seen her ever work.

01:31And more importantly, her training has been really good coming up to this race.

01:37She is, she's a dream, really.

01:39And her only kryptonite is peppermints.

01:44She loves peppermints.

01:47We're running her Saturday in the Suncoast.

01:49It'll be her first start back since the Breeders' Cup.

01:52And I think, normally, if she breaks running, that Tyler will have her, you know, fairly close.

01:59But as she showed in the Breeders' Cup, she can do a little bit of anything.

02:03It's our hope we go to the Suncoast, the Ashland, and then the Oaks.

02:08That's our three-race series.

02:10The Greens are amazing.

02:12You know, we only, we started out, they owned half a horse called Proven Strategies

02:17with a good friend of mine here in Yagoda.

02:19And it's just grown and grown.

02:23And they've seen the potential.

02:25And we went out, we bought some young horses, and she was one of them.

02:29She may be one of the best horses I've ever trained.

02:33I don't want to get too far ahead.

02:35Let's see how, you know, she goes from two to three.

02:40So we're going to let her do the talking.

02:42But she is, she amazes me.