Ben Colebrook Sends Two Runners to Blue Grass Debut

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00:00Ben Colbrook grew up skipping school to go to the races at Keeneland, and this weekend

00:06he'll saddle not just one, but two runners in Keeneland's premier derby prep race.

00:10We spoke with Colbrook about his two bluegrass contenders, Scooby Quondo and Raze Kane.

00:17This is my first runner in a bluegrass and to have two in it is even kind of crazier,

00:22but my first win was at Keeneland, my first stakes win was at Keeneland, and my first

00:27grade one was all at Keeneland, so it's been a lot of firsts here.

00:30Raze Kane's been great, and he came out of the Gotham in good shape, and he's had two

00:35nice works at the track here, you know, he's familiar with the surroundings, and he's won

00:39here before, so he's coming into the race really well.

00:42Hopefully there's some pace, and there looks on paper that there'll be some pace, and just

00:46hopefully from that outside post, just get over and kind of hopefully work out a trip

00:50like you did in the Gotham, where you can just kind of make that one run and hopefully

00:54sustain it, and, you know, just looking for a good race and something to build off of

00:58and hopefully go on to Churchill.

01:02Scooby's a little different because he's not as seasoned as Raze Kane, so, you know, we

01:06worked him a very aggressive work on the dirt, and he worked really, really well, Juan Machado

01:12was on him, thought he got over the dirt surface better than Tapita, you know, so Scooby on

01:18the dirt is a little bit of an unknown, but in the mornings he certainly seems like he

01:22really relishes the track.

01:24Talking with Andrew, the owner, he wanted to still give him a chance to kind of qualify

01:28for the derby, and he thought that we thought that the bluegrass, you know, timing-wise

01:32made more sense than waiting for the Lexington.

01:35You'd rather probably separate them, but at the same time, I mean, with races like this,

01:39you know, we kind of thought about the wood with Raze Kane, but I think on paper, there

01:44wasn't, like, one wasn't that much easier, so they were kind of similar races, so why

01:48ship, you know?

01:49They're both very quality horses, they have that in common, but I think Scooby's always

01:54showed a little bit more brilliance in his works.

01:56Raze Kane's always been kind of workman-like, you know, and just does everything you ask

02:00of him, and, you know, he's just very reliable.

02:03Scooby's certainly done nothing wrong so far, but he's just a little more inexperienced

02:07at this stage because he got a later start.

02:09It's a dream come true just to have a horse that's good enough to run on the bluegrass

02:13because I grew up, you know, watching the bluegrass as a kid, and, you know, it's one

02:18of the biggest reps for the derby, and it's here at home at our home track, so it's a

02:22big deal just to even be in the race, and we're super proud of that, and hopefully

02:26they both can give a good account of themselves, which I think they will.