Bob Bone Quotes (11 Quotes)

You've got to look at general crime statistics, road safety statistics and all that sort of thing in deciding whether a place is safe or unsafe to visit. And certainly London does come out better in all those mundane but much more relevant statistics.

He's really the first good horse I owned. So I'll remember every one of his races.

I've done the math. Between shipping, fees, everything else, if you win the Breeders' Cup Sprint you make about 350,000. I don't mean to sound negative, but unless you have a breeding prospect - and we don't - that's not a lot of money to win the toughest sprint in the world.

I don't see any dimension that Lost in the Fog doesn't have. That's the trouble. Do you go after him early Do you wait and make a run It looks like no matter what you do, that horse can adjust.

(Jockey) Alex Solis said he feels like a brand new horse,

If we're prepared and we do come in big numbers to visit the U.S. and Florida in particular, I think we're going to be pretty upset with the idea that some people in Florida have deemed London an unsafe place to visit.

Well I don't think it's a good one. Let me put this in context for you, we had over the last twenty years we've welcomed nearly 100,000 Americans, some young, some old, to take part in this event. Every single one has done so safely.

I looked at the races and was tempted to send both. But I thought there were too many off-the-pace horses in the Gold Cup, the same style as Choctaw. I didn't see any dead speed types in there. Someone will sit close to Desert Boom, but maybe there's a little better chance to steal the race. And I really didn't want to ship Choctaw and then ship again to the Breeders' Cup that was a big factor.

Let's have a meeting where I can address everybody's concerns. If at the end of that meeting they still think it's unsafe to go and the majority of people don't want to do it - fine.

Fort Myers' murder rate is several times higher than that in London, and you are three times as likely to be the victim of rape or violent crime in Fort Myers.

Post the London bombings of last year, every school that was signed up from the U.S. came and performed and did so completely safely.