There's an economic problem, no doubt about that.

You can't afford to take every horse that you have ever bred and raced. There's no way that you can take care of every single horse.

If the horse can be salvaged for some use. . . . Those horses, in my opinion, shouldn't be put down. It's not that we're opposed to putting an animal down. It's the criteria that's used. There are circumstances where it's just not right.

We're bringing him home just to save his life and give him a place to live.

That's got to be in the top one-half to 1 percent of all racehorses. You're lucky if a horse runs 15 to 20 races.

[The muddy waters roiled by Katrina have no doubt flooded some legendary musical locales and wiped out irreplaceable artifacts of New Orleans music. Among the hardest hit areas were the poverty-stricken African-American neighborhoods, where the New Orleans musical traditions are all but woven into the tattered but colorful fabric of everyday life. But the music of Crescent City as well as the people who create it -- and the spirit, soul, originality, independence and distinctive locality of that art and the musicians who create it -- cannot be washed away, no matter what the category hurricane or depth of flood.] It's going to take some time, but it will come back, ... We've got to put it back because it's so involved with the local economy and the United States.