HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Despite sending out I Get It to register the most important victory of her career, a half-length decision over favored World Tour in Saturday’s Sanibel Island Stakes, trainer Ron Spatz had to say a sad good-bye to the big horse in his barn earlier this week. I Get It joined trainer Mark Casse’s stable, having been purchased privately by owner Gary Barber following her troubled fourth-place finish (placed third by disqualification) four weeks earlier in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride. I Get It rallied from last in the Sanibel Island, a one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies, to register her fifth win in nine career starts. She tipped her hand that she was sitting on that type of performance with her effort in the Herecomesthebride. I Get It was seemingly full of run under Miguel Vasquez before being forced to check sharply inside Spanish Loveaffair on the far turn of the Herecomesthebride, losing all chance. Spanish Loveaffair, who ironically also is trained by Casse, was disqualified from first and placed fourth as a result of that incident. Spanish Loveaffair’s owners had their appeal of the disqualification denied. :: Bet horse racing on DRF Bets. Double Your First Deposit Up to $250. Join Now. Spatz said he understands why I Get It has to move on. “I’m not really a travelling guy, I’m 70 years old and have some health issues, and sometimes horses get to a point in my barn they need to go on to do better things,” he said. “She virtually priced herself out of the market here. She commanded a good price, and it was the right time to sell. But we had a contract that along with the price and the kickers offered to let me run her one more time before she went on the road. So it was all a pretty good option for me.” Spatz selected I Get It as a yearling for a bargain $8,500 out of the OBS 2019 October sale, and she earned $156,278 under his training. A daughter of Get Stormy, she ran in the name of the We Got This Stables prior to the Sanibel Island. “I trained Get Stormy’s mother and I always wanted to have a horse by him,” Spatz said. “She was a fun horse to have in the barn. We are all sad here, but we all know the game. You have to make money when you can, and it was a smart move by the owners to take the offer. But I miss her already. She is an exciting filly to watch, and I think she can win graded stakes down the road.” The one regret Spatz does have is the that he never got to win a graded stakes with I Get It. He thought she had a good chance to get that graded win in the Herecomesthebride. “In the Herecomesthebride, my jock scooted up along the rail and was clearly in there inside the other filly,” Spatz recalled. “When they brushed the first time, it might have been a 50-50 deal. But there was no need for the other horse to clobber her after that. The second time she put my horse into the fence – and I remember letting out a gasp when watching it – I thought she was going down. I think she could have won that race. At least I would have liked her to have gotten a fair chance to see what was going to happen.” Spatz felt she was even better in the Sanibel Island under Jose Ortiz. “The other day I wasn’t concerned she was last until they posted 49 for the half-mile split,” Spatz said. “But she’s got such a tremendous run in her. The jock said she felt like a European horse. Cover her up and when she gets daylight, she’s gone.” Spatz, who won eight races during the Championship meeting, will now have to turn to his incoming crop of 2-year-olds in hopes of finding another “big” horse to replace I Get It.