He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it wasn't all that noticeable.

That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.

We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.

I went from a barber to cattleman, out of cattle into horses. The rest is history.

We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.