You want your horse to win if possible, but you don't want to beat him up. You've got to think down the road a little bit.
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He's a very classy horse. It's just when he sees a horse in front of him, he gets that horse on his mind and wants to go catch him. So the trick is to not let him get too aggressive about that.John Shirreffs
The times I've watched Brother Derek run, he's done everything perfectly.
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I don't know that you can compare it to anything else a person in racing could have. I think whenever you have a horse like this you always want to win the next race, but I don't know that you can duplicate the first Saturday in May getting in the gate with 19 other horses and winning. There is no other race in that category.
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It's a good mix of horses speed horses, come-from-behind horses. It looks like it will be a nice race. I just hope Giacomo gets the trip he needs and that's about it.
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He worked very well. He's always trained well. I think he's a pretty fit horse. I'm just trying to keep him there.
John Shirreffs
I just hope we can build off his last race. He's gotten bigger, put on weight, and become a little more aggressive than he was as a three-year-old.
John Shirreffs
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