He's matured and is doing things easier now. |
He's more of the laid-back type but when it gets to this grand scale and we're on the top in the horse racing world, he gets very excited and very much enjoys it. |
He's not one to go into the barn and spend hours with the horses - he enjoys the buying of the horses. He comes and looks at the horses with me and we go to the sales together there and at the races. |
I don't want to run on an off track or a hard, sealed track. There's no reason to this early in the year. There's no reason to take a chance, that's all. |
I have some advantages going into this race. I just hope that it all works out. The Juvenile was a one-turn race; this is different and it's not the ultimate goal for either horse, but it would be a nice, fun race to win. |
I hope he does. I don't need the lead. If they want to go, let 'em go. |
I just went over a jump without enough momentum to carry myself over it. I landed wrong and hit the ground. I rode all my life and never had a broken bone. I knew it wasn't life-threatening, just life-messing-up. I knew right away that I messed up and that life was never going to be the same. |
I might be more excited if the gray horse won this time. |
I think they did that because he'll be a short price in the pick six. I hope they're right. |
I think this is a very deep, talented group. |
I won't take him off for a pound or two. |
I'd like a nice easy race out of him. I don't need a taxing one. We wanted to settle him down between races this time. His last two workouts were phenomenal, and it's really exciting to watch him. |
I'm not pressed to run him. He doesn't need to run. He's fresh and he's a three-year-old at the beginning of the year, and it's a long year. |
If a horse wants to be sent out there and be ridiculous, let him. We'll be close. Everybody knows what our style is. |
If I could have mapped it out, he couldn't have done any better. It was a nice, easy race on him and he did it in racehorse time. |