What a credit to this horse as hard as I spent him in the first heat to come back and run the other horse down. At the top of the stretch, I thought if I could keep him straight he would win.

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If there's one knock on the horse, and how can you knock a horse that's been as great as he has today, he's not the quickest in the first four or five steps off the gate and that's so critical at Delaware.

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When I got to Ronnie [Pierce] at the head of the stretch he was working pretty hard and his horse looked spent.

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