My guess is that they're losing at the 21-24 battle . . . and decided to reinvest their money where their core consumer is, and where all the other brands fall off in attending to this crowd.

He's better than he was last year. He's pacing the turns better. Last year he was green, and you couldn't hustle him around the turns. We've let his hobbles out and his head poles are looser. He seems to be going better.

I think he raced good. He's starting to impress me. Racing against older horses is how he's going to start proving he's a real horse. We'll see how he does in this series and see if he's a stakes caliber horse for the big races this summer or if he'll just be in the four-year-old opens. This is the test.