The Kentucky Derby is all about timing. This horse is getting right at the right time.

I'd rather be one of the people that they're talking about than the one people are not talking about.

If he's going well in a few weeks, I would hope we would move on to Louisville. He showed today that he can do whatever we really want him to.

He's won on a wet track before, albeit at Laurel. He handles most everything pretty good.

He's training really well here. All his stuff is falling into place really well. I'm confident he's prepared. Now we're obviously looking for all the same things everybody is looking for?a clean trip.

I want to go in the easier of the two.

It was a risk I wouldn't take if I had it to do over again. But it would have been a one-in-a-million shot if someone had claimed him.

We all have to see what his style is going to be against better horses.

You kind of got to get behind him and just give him a gentle push into the gate. He won't walk up willingly on his own. He kind of balks at it a little bit. Once you get behind him and give him a little shove he moves forward and goes right where he's asked to.

It definitely changed our strategy. We got a small Derby prep at Laurel, the Miracle Wood Stakes, or we probably wouldn't be here.