McLaughlin still schooling Alpha at the gate

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McLaughlin still schooling Alpha at the gate
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin has been pretty persistent with the Grade 3 Withers Stakes winner, and the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial runner up, Alpha, with his gate schooling, and with the Grade 1, $2 million Kentucky Derby a few days from happening at Churchill Downs on 5 May, 2012, McLaughlin doesn’t want to lose the race right after it begins.
Ever since, the 3-year-old Godolphin Racing owned colt, Alpha, prior to his 11th place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, McLaughlin has invested a lot of time schooling the Bernardini colt, because he doesn’t want any mishaps at Churchill Downs come 5 May.
“He stood in the gate this morning,” noted Artie Magnuson, assistant to McLaughlin. “He was really, really good. We need to keep going. In the afternoon he gets cranked up. Last time [in the Wood Memorial], we didn’t have a man in with him. It was [NYRA starter Roy Williamson’s] idea at the gate. He said, ‘Why don’t we try to leave a guy out, but we’ll watch. If Ramon [Dominguez] wants someone, we’ll grab him.’ Sometimes a colt will get distracted. They’ve done a great job with him.”
Alpha has been ruthless after his eleventh place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, and in his sophomore season, he has been exceptionally well, winning the Count Fleet Stakes, the Grade 3 Withers Stakes, and finishing a solid second in the most important Kentucky Derby prep race, the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial.
Alpha will be back at Churchill Downs, where he doesn’t have any fond memories of that venue.
The Kentucky Derby will have an electrifying atmosphere, much like the Breeders’ Cup, and Alpha wh faltered at the starting gate will be edgy once more, but this time around he has been schooled properly to leave the gate without any accident. 
Alpha is not that terrible that he will mess with the man inside the gate with him, but he is suppose to be there without a pony handler which will give him some room to break freely from the gate for the Run for the Roses.