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. - John Shirreffs Quotes
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. John Shirreffs
 

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I would have preferred a little bigger field, obviously, and a little more speed. We were in a position of having to be the presser. Other than that, I thought he ran very well. Brother Derek is exceptional. - John Shirreffs Quotes

I would have preferred a little bigger field, obviously, and a little more speed. We were in a position of having to be the presser. Other than that, I thought he ran very well. Brother Derek is exceptional.

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He is a very, very, classy horse. - John Shirreffs Quotes

He is a very, very, classy horse.

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I probably would want a horse that's a little versatile and one that's gotten a lot of dirt in their face. - John Shirreffs Quotes

I probably would want a horse that's a little versatile and one that's gotten a lot of dirt in their face.

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He's worked very well, except for his last one, when he went slow by himself. When he goes by himself, he's a little on the lazy side. - John Shirreffs Quotes

He's worked very well, except for his last one, when he went slow by himself. When he goes by himself, he's a little on the lazy side.

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With a Giant's Causeway, it makes you feel good. We don't want to reinforce the speed. He trains like a horse that wants to go farther. There are a lot of opportunities for horses when they develop. - John Shirreffs Quotes

With a Giant's Causeway, it makes you feel good. We don't want to reinforce the speed. He trains like a horse that wants to go farther. There are a lot of opportunities for horses when they develop.

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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. - John Shirreffs Quotes

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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Every horse has a speed that they're comfortable going at, so it's important that if they can do it and go a distance at that pace, that clip, then why change it. - John Shirreffs Quotes

Every horse has a speed that they're comfortable going at, so it's important that if they can do it and go a distance at that pace, that clip, then why change it.

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I need to take the edge off him over the next couple of days. - John Shirreffs Quotes

I need to take the edge off him over the next couple of days.

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We needed to refocus and he just needed to be comfortable again. We didn't want to feel like we had to run in the Belmont but, obviously, we wanted to. - John Shirreffs Quotes

We needed to refocus and he just needed to be comfortable again. We didn't want to feel like we had to run in the Belmont but, obviously, we wanted to.

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The times I've watched Brother Derek run, he's done everything perfectly. - John Shirreffs Quotes

The times I've watched Brother Derek run, he's done everything perfectly.

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