But it's hard not to talk about this horse. She's very smart and she did it easy today. |
Empire Maker is the best horse I have ever trained. We weren't within 10 lengths of seeing this horse's best race. |
He can track, like the [Grade 1 Man o' War] last year in New York, where he was 10 lengths off. |
He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire. |
He looks much better than last year. He's matured. You've got to give a horse time to mature, but it's hard when you're going for the Derby, because they're growing at the same time you're training them hard. It's hard for them to blossom. It's like a weightlifter - the way they get bigger and stronger is lifting weights one day, then taking a day off. He needed time off. |
He used to like hanging around his horses but he was too strong today. When I see him on a lead it's good because nobody has ever passed him. |
He was a good horse over there. Hopefully, he can reproduce that form over here. It's important that I win a Grade 1. |
He's a big asset. Horses are running great for him. I don't know if it's Patrick or the horse, but I'm not going to experiment. |
He's a bigger horse, a stronger horse. It looked like he could get a mile and a quarter the way he ran today. |
He's a hard one to judge. I'd like to see him run. He doesn't train real brilliantly like one that wants to go fast in the mornings, but he's doing well and he's acting great. |
He's a nice horse, but everybody's jumped on the bandwagon. I'd like him to lay a little off the pace. If he can't lay off the pace, he can't be a very good horse. |
He's a real nice horse, and he tries hard. When he gets competition, he tries even harder. When horses come to him, he'll go on. |
He's a very nice horse. Very easy to train, good-looking horse, does everything right. |
He's been fighting a cough and he's got mucus. As simply as I can put it, he's not right. I can't run him in a race like this right now. |
How about Intercontinental going a mile and quarter? |