This horse was ready to run, it just looked like we'd tear him up. He was just too big. He was this size when I bought him, he's just filled out.
Alan's a great young rider, he's just nervous. In these races you need somebody with ice water in their veins; Dominguez has ice water in his veins.
She has a gift for that. She breaks horses in a matter of minutes, literally, no joke. I've seen her break horses in five minutes. I've seen her break a horse where it took 45 minutes and she'd be upset.
That was nothing more than an open gallop. He didn't really exert himself.
She looks at them more as pets than as racehorses. She looks out for their best interests, which is great. Me, I believe if they're fit, things take care of themselves. If you got a fit horse, you got yourself a healthy horse. The worst thing for horses is overtraining them. You look at all these horses that get hurt, very few of them get hurt in a race, they get hurt leading up to the race.
As soon as [Dominguez] chirped him, he just explodes. As soon as Ramon asked him to ease up, he eased up. This horse can do anything you want him to do.
I already know what I have; he doesn't have to prove anything to me. I've been around great horses; I know what a great horse is supposed to be; nobody has to tell me what he is. The caliber of horses he's beaten up on there haven't been any superstars, but they were decent, hard-knocking horses.
It's a good test for him, and I expect him to run huge. Nobody scares me if he runs his race. If he runs his 'A' race, he's as good as anybody in the country.
There's going to be some speed in front of him and that should give him a chance to relax. If he's going to run in the Kentucky Derby, that's what you're going to need to do. You don't usually win the Derby wire to wire.
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