Bobby Frankel Quotes (21 Quotes)

He's a nice horse, but everybody's jumped on the bandwagon. I'd like him to lay a little off the pace. If he can't lay off the pace, he can't be a very good horse.

He was a good horse over there. Hopefully, he can reproduce that form over here. It's important that I win a Grade 1.

I was going to run him in the Cigar Mile, but he's doing so well I might run him in the Sport Page,

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

If there is speed, I want to get the same trip. If there is no speed, he can go to the lead. It looked like the other day he could get the distance. He was very impressive.

I'll take credit for this one, though.

He's a hard one to judge. I'd like to see him run. He doesn't train real brilliantly like one that wants to go fast in the mornings, but he's doing well and he's acting great.

The extra distance is going to help him, too. It could be a hot pace.

He looks much better than last year. He's matured. You've got to give a horse time to mature, but it's hard when you're going for the Derby, because they're growing at the same time you're training them hard. It's hard for them to blossom. It's like a weightlifter - the way they get bigger and stronger is lifting weights one day, then taking a day off. He needed time off.

Last year was a rush job. That's how the Derby ruins you. We're lucky we got out of that in one piece with this horse.

But it's hard not to talk about this horse. She's very smart and she did it easy today.

He's a real nice horse, and he tries hard. When he gets competition, he tries even harder. When horses come to him, he'll go on.

He used to like hanging around his horses but he was too strong today. When I see him on a lead it's good because nobody has ever passed him.

That way, if it rains for the Breeders Cup at least we won't have to worry about it.

I don't know if I'd say six furlongs is too short for him. He doesn't like dirt in his face too much and there's going to be a big field in the Sprint.

We'll X-ray him in a few days to make sure there's no crack there. I don't think there is. He's a little bit sore.

He's a bigger horse, a stronger horse. It looked like he could get a mile and a quarter the way he ran today.

It was just too much for him last year. We rushed him a little, trying to make the Derby. He just never got a chance to blossom. He needed to be freshened.

She's a bleeder, which is why they never ran her too far in Australia because they couldn't treat her over there.

I don't want to take credit for the Queen's Plate, to be honest,

To win eight races in a row you have to be a horse that doesn't make mistakes and he doesn't make any,