Richard Mandella Quotes (23 Quotes)

Dubai has succeeded in making the world smaller and racing bigger.

Nothing was wrong, he just was not running as well as last year.

It's time to get into the deep end of the pool, and Saturday it gets pretty deep. So we'll find out. It will tell us what we've got.

He's just a big pet. I thought there was room for a lot of improvement going into his last race, so I'm hoping for that on Sunday.

We found this a few years later after we realized we didn't keep anything when he was around.

How happy am I Considering the terrible meet I'm having here, I'd let this horse sleep in my own bed if I had to. Anytime you can get these old timers to come back like this, it's great.

I'm very disappointed. But I've been training a long time, and once you get your senses about you, you're thankful it happened here and not on the track when he could have broken a leg or gotten hurt badly.

He's a strange horse to get along with.

We were disappointed when he ran fourth that time. This is what we've been looking for.

He looked so comfortable and (Victor) looked like he had a lot of horse.

He galloped this morning, and it looks like we'll put the shoe back on tomorrow, ... Obviously, I wish this never happened, but I think we'll be O.K.

There's been a lot of nice colts like my own that show promise and are stepping up. It's time to get into the deep end of the pool, and I think Saturday it gets pretty deep.

Goodwood BC Handicap (1 18 miles, Gr 2, Santa Anita, Saturday) Trainer Richard Mandella has Rock Hard Ten on the same course as Pleasantly Perfect two years ago, with this 500,000 race his first start since winning the Santa Anita Handicap in March. No serious ailments, ... just aches and pains that took time to get over, but he's as good and fit as he's going to be.

That's kind of the short-range plan. We're going to get to the Breeders' Cup this year and not mess it up.

I saw blood on the back of his heel when he came back from his gallop. It's fairly minor, just at a bad time.

He needed to pick up a few pounds, ... He needed to fill out. He's a good horse and he's doing great.

This was the big obstacleto get him back, make sure he ran the race that he did last winter here, and he did that, ... From here, Ill just train him like any other horse and come back a month from now in the Breeders Cup.

I think she might like it. I think she's better on the grass, but I've got to see.

He's very good right now, ... But I'm never comfortable. I'm only comfortable if I win. It's comfortable having a good horse. That helps. Helps a lot.

I just hope they (the owners) consider running him again next year,

He hasn't run in a long time and I've never run him before. I'm guessing he'd need to get a race in him to get on his best footing, but he's ready to get started.

He never got the respect that he deserved, maybe because there's a big shadow that those guys cast. But he had results year after year. And it came full circle. He had some years getting the big horses and then got hurt. But now I think he's right back. I don't think he's trying to ride every single race. But every race he rides, he tries to ride as well as he can.

I thought he'd finish good and that would set him up for bigger stuff. He may be better now.