He went into our winter spell as our best derby chance,
He has a cult following in New Zealand because of the record, ... They haven't seen a horse do what he has done. He beat the older horses at weight-for-age at three and won the derby having not run for five weeks and has returned to win two over there.
The firmer the track the better for I don't want his sprint nullified,
I'll be surprised if we don't out-sprint her,
I don't think I've seen a horse with a turn of foot like him for quite some time. The first time Mike hits him he just explodes.
If we go to Hong Kong, it then gets too tight to do the quarantine, have a break and be back in Melbourne for the Australian Cup and on to Dubai.
To be honest, if I hadn't gone through a marriage split-up and Paul hadn't, we probably would have kept most of him but financially we couldn't afford to at the time,
He coughed when he was back in the tie-up stalls after the race, but we suspected that was just grit down his throat and a scope later proved that was the case,
If they want to loiter, we won't be against taking off,
Paul kept a small share, we can't afford to keep a share in all of them,