33 Quotes by Russell Baze

When we hit the wire I wouldn't have bet money that we got there.

We turned for home and he kind of shook loose of those horses and pricked his ears, like he's known to do,

Boy, he made that exciting. He just walked out of the gate. At the half-mile pole, I reached back and hit him to get his attention. I thought I had a shot at the top of the lane because he was moving, but when we hit the wire, I wouldn't have bet money that we got there. That was tight.

I shook the stick at him and boy, he gave me a good little punch. About a dozen lengths later he just quit. Just inside the eighth pole, I had nothing left.

I've never been on a horse cooler than this horse, ... Nothing bothers him. The crowd was hooting and hollering and it didn't rattle him at all.

I tried to make him work a little more the whole way to make sure there was plenty of air in him.

It's like being a roadie for a rock star. Everybody knows Lost in the Fog. These kind of horses come along very seldomly. Its great being part of this team.

Once I got halfway through the hole, I knew I could make it and then he just ran away from that horse. But he started goofing around because he's not used to making the lead so early.

I love it when a plan comes together like that. Down the backstretch when Midwesterner came up outside of him, he grabbed the bit and didn't want him to get ahead of us. But on the turn when that horse dropped back, he relaxed and I knew we were all right.