Ron Ellis Quotations

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

To go 0-11 last year it was so tough on all of us mentally as well as physically. We all know there's so much potential for success here. We expect to have success and win some games now.

I'm going to go. Paul's going to be in New York that day with Suave for the Jockey Club Gold Cup.

I'm really confident about our chances. He's coming off the best race of his career numbers-wise, and it really restored his confidence. He's doing great, and training great. He's sitting on a big performance.

tireless two-way player who was relentless but clean.

If he'll just give it his all, he'll win. If he doesn't give it his all, everybody else is eligible to beat him.

We didn't expect to buy him, but we thought he was undervalued at that price. Here was a sound, proven horse costing less than yearlings. And we certainly had this race in mind when we bought him.

He was taking time to warm up, like he was stiff, which is not like him. He hadn't worked great, either. We did a nuclear scan on him, and the top of his left front cannon bone lit up. There's no fracture, his ligaments scanned clean, but there's something going on there.

I think we all did things in that series that we usually would have never done because it was such an emotional series.

Man, winning one game will be like winning a championship around here.