17 Quotes by Michael Trombetta

We're here to run, and I think we're going to run well. I've been trying to keep everything the same as it's been. With these horses, you have to travel, and they don't get to run in the same place too many times, so they have to learn to adapt. We try to take everything in stride, and we don't want to change the routine too much.

Shipping a few days out has been my way of doing it, but for this race I'd have to think we'd do it a little differently and get him a work over the track.

I don't think it would matter. He seems to run over every surface. Whatever we get, we take.

He did well, but we may bump up the time we go out in the morning because Ernesto said the track was cut up a little bit.

He exceeded our wishes. It got him here.

He may go to the gate in the morning.

We're on our way. We should get in there around 9:30 or 10 o'clock tonight.

It definitely changed our strategy. We got a small Derby prep at Laurel, the Miracle Wood Stakes, or we probably wouldn't be here.

You kind of got to get behind him and just give him a gentle push into the gate. He won't walk up willingly on his own. He kind of balks at it a little bit. Once you get behind him and give him a little shove he moves forward and goes right where he's asked to.