Obviously if you ask me, I'd like to see our colt's best distance be a mile and a quarter. … We weren't training this horse to win the Hopeful. We're training the horse for down the road, and the Hopeful is the next logical step.

Obviously, going a mile and a quarter, you try to get those gallops in, which means the longer the better. You try to get some air into them, some oxygen and stamina. On the other hand, you've got to have the horse. We think we've got that with Bellamy Road. We're pretty confident.

A mile and a quarter (2 km) here, uphill, was always going to suit him.

You can hike for a quarter of a mile and find a beautiful waterfall.

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

She was struggling to stay there. She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a better filly than she showed today.