I thought he was finished. And he came on.

It was probably too much pressure on him. I wish I had a more definitive answer. Maybe he’s just not as good as he was.

I’m glad he ran a good race. [Prado] had to get into him a little bit, which was good because I think he needed a wake-up call.

Too many things can happen to start getting excited.

He scared the heck out of me.

I didn’t want to bring him back going a mile and one-eighth in the Hal’s Hope because there are some hotshots in there who might make him overextend himself, and I didn’t want to knock...

Probably good judgment and good sense would say not to run, but there is only one Kentucky Derby.

He’s got a couple of races under his belt, he’s training dynamite, he looks good, he feels good. We’ve got no excuses. I feel good about it. Right distance, right spot, right track. He’s perfect....

He galloped out strong; he came out of it well. He’s doing really, really well. I hope he runs well.

It was a little slower than I wanted him to go, but we just wanted him to stretch his legs. Everything is on go, as long as everything goes well. I’d like to see how...

Richie said he started to idle, and then Richie panicked and cracked him. You really don’t want to hit him any more than you have to. He got him running again, but I think it...

I have some ideas why he didn’t run very well, but I don’t want to speculate.

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

He was full of himself. If everything looks good on Wednesday (of Derby Week), I’ll enter him and if everything looks good on Thursday, I’ll ship.

He hurt his back last year, and we had to completely stop on him. He looks good and strong now, and he training better than ever.

First, he’s got to win on Saturday. I’m not going to think beyond that. I don’t even know if he can beat Like Now.

He didn’t go quite as fast as he did last time. This is what we wanted.

This is going to be a big jump for him. I usually don’t like to do this sort of thing, but he’s got such a good psyche about him. He does things with such ease....

I don’t know if we even belong with these horses, but you sure hope you do.

But he hasn’t missed a lick in his training since getting down here in November, and it doesn’t seem like he’s lost a step in the morning. I don’t know if he’s still a Grade...

He has to be in tip-top condition. I’m not going to put him into a tough race. Probably good judgment and good sense would say not to run, but there is only one Kentucky Derby...

He’s training well, we’ll give it a shot. He likes it hard and fast, so it’ll probably be wet and soft.

I thought he wasn’t going to run and it was going to be a disaster, but Cornelio said he had plenty of horse and he was just cruising. He knew more about him than I...

We’ll probably run, but first let’s see how he comes out of this.

So far so good — he’s done everything we’ve asked of him. We’ve had a couple of setbacks. We wanted to run in the Wood. That was our perfect plan, but it wasn’t to be....

Last year was a lost year for him, and we’re lucky anything worse didn’t happen.

Probably with good judgment and good sense, you wouldn’t do it. But there again, they’re only 3 once, and there’s only one Derby. It’s hard to deny them that when they’ve done nothing wrong in...

It was only his second start since July, and he had to fight hard. I’d have rather seen him not get hit and win by five, but I’m happy.

I’m just happy he showed some life this time. The biggest thing is that he proved he could still run hard from the start and finish strong.