We're set for the Santa Catalina. He's here, he loves this track, so why leave?

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.

It's very important to have someone up in Santa Fe during the legislature.

You don't want to leave all your vitality on the training track.

The fractions were a little soft and I thought Stevie was a little closer than I wanted him to be but it worked out. Alex had a lot of horse. He knows the horse and he rode him perfect.

He's got good speed, but it might be a good race for him to sit off the pace a tiny bit.