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,

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,

Paul does all the work, inspects all the yearlings at a sale and then we go through them together, form a final list, and then decide what to buy,

Paul kept a small share, we can't afford to keep a share in all of them,

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,

He is a nice long horse everywhere, ... A very athletic horse. I wouldn't say he is any oil painting but he is a horseman's horse. Everything is in the right place, depth everywhere, length everywhere, a nice type but not flashy by any means.

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.

He went into our winter spell as our best derby chance,

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.