She may well also like a bit of cut in the ground. Her sire Medicean preferred it on the fast side, although he did win the Lockinge on soft.

He's a big, strong homebred, and he looks like Giacomo, too. Same sire, same color.

[Now he’s 6-1, 200 and still fast and spent the summer working out in Fayetteville trying to be Mr. Consistency.] I was pretty much here the whole time, ... It went pretty good.

Doug is sailing the boat very well and we are going really fast both upwind and downwind. I give a lot of credit to Don Kelly, the boat captain. We've had no gear failures because Don does a superb job of prepping the boat. He makes my job a lot easier.

That's why I was getting all those ground balls. It's tough to elevate.

I still think our guys don't know how bad it is. From what I've heard, unless you're on the ground in New Orleans, you can't comprehend what has happened there.