Even if we had the exact same geophysical situation here, our planning and response capabilities are far beyond what they have, ... Not to put a happy spin on it, but we've made tremendous progress.

Zafer has helped me push that.

Most people don't realize how bad off we are.

I'd rather be in Los Angeles than any city in the world. In many regards, we're one of the best prepared in the nation in terms of experience and based on previous natural disasters and the like.

He'll definitely be entered for the Melbourne Cup.

Every start before today he's either drawn the outside or second outside barrier. He was a lot worse off at the weights today against some of the horses he beat at Caulfield, but we were confident after he drew a good barrier.