50 Quotes by Tim Ritchey

Dr. (Larry) Bramlage came on Friday and we did the digital X-rays again and it showed the healing is taking place,

I spoke to Dr. Hogan and Dr. Bramlage yesterday, and they said the X-rays were really good, ... Dr. Bramlage gave us the OK to start galloping him. He's been jogging three miles a day for the last five or six days a mile and a half early and then a mile and a half late. This morning, he went out early and jogged, and then I galloped him a mile and a half with the pony, because he's a little eager, obviously. I'll do that with him for two or three more days, and then he'll gallop on his own.

I've been a trainer over 30 years, so you put your time in at the small tracks, you finally get an opportunity to find a horse of this ability, believe me it's the horse,

The work was faster than what I was hoping for. But I thought that was a good sign because it means we're more forward than I thought we were.

Running in a Grade 1 in his second race is not ideally what you want to do, but Menacing showed me a lot off the first race,

Right now, we want to run in the Cigar Mile if he is 100 percent,

After the breeze, we'll see how it goes.

(Afleet Alex) likes doing things and he likes people. So, he had to enjoy this. His ears were up for almost the whole time. It was something different for him to do and I'm glad we were able to fit it into our program. Saratoga asked us if we would do it, and we were more than glad to -- anything to help support the sport that is my livelihood.

As far as I know they'd only sell him for breeding, and even that would not be a 100% sale.