Stevie came out of the (San Rafael) in great shape and ate up well.

The next race will be either the San Rafael Stakes (a Grade 2, $150,000 race Jan. 15 at Santa Anita) or your race. It's $100,000 more up there. The grade isn't important; what matters to me is another $100,000. We'll see how he's doing for the next couple of weeks and how the weather is.

I really don't ask him for a ton of speed in the morning. I think he can sit just off of it. For his second time out, I was so happy when I saw where he drew. With a little bit of luck, we should be in good shape.

When it didn't rain much, the track looked good, we went.

It's kind of a bummer not being part of it. It would have been really exciting to be there.

That post was great. Johnny [Court] knows her and is so confident in her. He set off the leader and saved enough horse.