Whatever we've asked him so far he's done, so we're going to try the dirt now and if he doesn't handle it, we'll still know that we have an exceptional turf horse. He'd only worked one time on the grass before his last race, and he's trained well on the dirt.
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He's obviously a very talented horse. Whether he carries the class he shows on turf over to the dirt, we just don't know yet. But his mother and half-brother (Holy Ground) ran well on the dirt.
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This race will be a test. This was sort of the plan for this horse all along. The timing was just right for his turf races. We've taken our time with him. Physically, he was ready before, but mentally, he had a lot of growing up to do.
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He has always trained well on the dirt. His half-brother was a stakes winner on the dirt. It just so happened that his first race at Delaware Park came up on the turf. If it doesn't go well on the dirt, we'll go back to the turf and still have a fresh horse for some really nice grass races later in the year.
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He's the real deal. I think I have a very good horse. He's the type of horse that gives me that confidence he can do it. My job right now is to do the very best I can for him. One thing that's different from my Olympic experience, I was on the horse and had to do it myself. I have no control once the race starts now.
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In this case, the horse ran through traffic and crashed into a car and could've killed someone.
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The Kentucky Derby is all about timing. This horse is getting right at the right time.
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Buying the land while waiting for the study to come though is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, it's available. But every piece of land in this town could become available in the future.
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We moved out here so we could ride off our property and access local trails, and we knew if we didn't do something to maintain our ability to ride out safely we'd be like a lot of other horse neighborhoods that don't have anyplace to ride anymore.
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Shane has been our horse all year long, everything we run goes through him. At times, we have used Shane at all five positions out on the floor. He's just so fundamentally sound and versatile wherever you put him.
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It is against your horse having to ping his way through machine gun fire. It is one of the things that he has to overcome.
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I thought Joe was gonna tackle the dad-gum horse. I was gonna tell him, 'Go high on him, don't go low.' I remember Joe running out there and getting upset about that.
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But it's hard not to talk about this horse. She's very smart and she did it easy today.
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I was a little upset when he was that close during the early part. But on this turf course, it doesn't look like you can close much ground. It just shows how versatile a horse he is. He can come from way far back or he can lay up on a very fast pace. I don't think you've seen the best of this horse.
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To win eight races in a row you have to be a horse that doesn't make mistakes and he doesn't make any
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Last year was like going to Disney World for the first time. This year, I've got past all the distractions... Kind of like a horse with blinders. That's what I try to be.
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We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.
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Ben started out a little rough for us, but lately he's just been a horse. When he has the ball, this is a confident group.
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A run will help him, but he went a good 1: 24. He's a versatile horse. We're starting off at seven-eighths, and that's a tough sprint.
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Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.
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We had him ready, but I was scared of (Bobby) Frankel's horse (Major Success) to be truthful with you. But (Surf Cat) ran really big. We'll see how he pulls up and see what's next. Santa Anita is my favorite place.
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We're not interested. If this horse would get injured tomorrow, I'd lose a few nights' sleep that I didn't take the money. But if I watch the horse win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile or the Kentucky Derby in somebody else's silks, I might lose sleep the rest of my life.
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Obviously if you ask me, I'd like to see our colt's best distance be a mile and a quarter. We weren't training this horse to win the Hopeful. We're training the horse for down the road, and the Hopeful is the next logical step.
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I never thought I could get another horse who would get me as excited to the level as Madcap. And this horse is starting to do that. It's been an interesting summer: One door closes and the other one opens.
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When we got him, he was a late 2-year-old, almost 3. (Previous trainers) tried to break him, but it was impossible. He was so high strung. He was the toughest horse I ever had to break in my life. He always had that spark. We just had to channel it in the right direction.
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