Winter Memories - 2011 Garden City Stakes

Jimmy Toner switched riders on Winter Memories for the $250,000 Garden City Stakes (gr. IT) in hopes of getting his supremely talented filly a cleaner trip and a better chance at scoring her first grade I win. Somewhere at about the quarter pole of the 1 1/8-mile turf race Toner may have been regretting that decision, as new rider Javier Castellano found himself loaded with horse but stuck behind the entire field with no way out. The 3-year-old daughter of El Prado somehow overcame the brutal trip