The Wood is a better spot. The timing is better for us. We have a little extra time to get him ready for the Derby. I do like the extra week.

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I don't want to make the mistake of going too early. One time when I was working for Godolphin, we left Dubai on April 10, and when we got to New York there was a half-foot of snow on the ground and it was 35 degrees. The horses went from having slick coats to long hair in a week.

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We've always felt he would be a better horse around two turns, and he trained better going into the Tampa Bay Derby than he did the Sam Davis.

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It was a picture-perfect trip. We want to see this horse go all the way to the Derby. But we have another race to go first.

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He was training better coming into this race than he did in the Sam Davis and he ran a big race. It was a perfect trip. Our horse just had a picture-perfect trip.

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We still think we can make it to the Derby.

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He always worked so well, so when we were sprinting him we were just dumbfounded that he wasn't performing any better. He was one that definitely needed to stretch out.

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He's a very laid-back horse. He has absolutely no speed at all, but he knows how to pick it up later. He has a real good late kick.

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When I got him back in October, they told me he had some minor problems but nothing significant. He had only been beaten one time, which says something about a horse running in that company.

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