John Velazquez Quotations

I was where I wanted to be. When I asked him, he responded.

He's running good and doing well. I hope he'll bounce back.

Flower Alley always showed talent. He was just green. He's (reached that) potential.

I just help shaking the whip at him and the more I shook the whip at him the more he went. I hit him once and kept shaking the whip at him and he just kept running. He was a monster today.

I didn't think she was ever going to get into the gate, but once I got off of her, she went right in. After that, all I was worried about was getting a good position. She broke fine, and when I got her in position, everything went great.

Whenever somebody gets hurt, we try to get some guys together and get a collection to get some sort of money to the person who needs it. But this one is a pretty severe tragedy, so we are trying to do something a little more aggressive to raise a little more money for him.

I was happy with where I was. He was going very comfortably.

He was well behaved, he moved really well and warms up really well. He's not a real aggressive horse or anything like that, he's very to himself and didn't give me any indications that he'd be different today.

We had a good position. I was where I wanted to be, then I asked him and he responded. The winner was just a little bit better today.

All I had to do was get position and bide my time. When he was ready to run, I asked him and he responded. I was just a passenger here.