We just want to put an instant in people's lives where they're not thinking about their short paycheck or their oversized bills. These stupid ordinances that people are using to over structure this city.

The reason I took up the chalk art is because I'm not very good at this.

That's what I'm told every time I make a complaint. 'Shut up and draw Lola. Everything is going to be OK.' I don't think it's going to be OK this time.

Let's have a meeting where I can address everybody's concerns. If at the end of that meeting they still think it's unsafe to go and the majority of people don't want to do it - fine.

[Because he is not Breeders' Cup eligible, Desert Boom could win the Gold Cup by a dozen lengths and still not go to Belmont Park, not with an $800,000 supplemental fee staring him in the face; so there's no reason to leave anything in the tank on Saturday.] I expect he'll be sent to the lead, ... and it's a question if he'll get the mile-and-a quarter. I'm not sure he has the class of Perfect Drift or some of the others, but I really think the farther he goes, the better he'll get.

Tonight we just went out and got the job done. It was a total team effort. Sutherlin did a good job of blocking some of our hits, and our defensive players did a great job of covering and picking up the dig off the blocks.