00:01They're off in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.
00:04Brussels slow to begin.
00:06Cypher, three-quarters of a length behind.
00:08Obliteration is down toward the inside.
00:10Cypher!
00:11Cypher has it close to home from Brussels.
00:14Cypher's a Breeders' Cup winner!
00:20Winning the Breeders' Cup as a trainer, I guess, is justification.
00:25If you don't get the ability to work with, you know, that caliber of horse
00:29or one that can take you there, you know, it doesn't take long
00:32for people to kind of label you as, okay, well, they, you know,
00:37they're a good trainer, but they're not for the big horse.
00:44Well, I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and my mom and dad took me to the races
00:47when I was a baby, but, you know, I wasn't born in the game.
00:50I got lucky enough to be educated underneath Todd Pletcher and Wayne Lucas.
00:55It's a game of perseverance. You just have to stick with it.
00:58At the time when we went on our own, you know, we had a handful of horses
01:03and working hard, you know, it's just, I think that's, when it boils down to it,
01:07you've got to work hard to be successful in this game.
01:11It's Saratoga County to win the game!
01:13We'll always be in love with Saratoga County.
01:15Obviously, Vekoma and Point of Honor were good.
01:18Sacred Wish, Doris Vader recently last year, and our trip to Ascot with Crimson Advocate.
01:23Crimson Advocate with a clear advantage, but here is Relief Rally and Tom Mark Bond
01:28coming towards the line. It's very tight.
01:31Crimson Advocate...
01:31The Triple Crown races, the Travers, and the Breeders' Cup races,
01:36which are championship races at the end of the year, those are, like, biggies.
01:40My first Breeders' Cup course was Summer of Fun for Bonaventure Stables.
01:44He ran a beautiful race to finish third that day, and it was big, you know,
01:48big for me, being a newbie to the Breeders' Cup.
01:51And Vekoma is pouring it on in the stretch.
01:54He really loved the slop in this grade one run-happy corner.
01:58Vekoma's such a talented horse.
02:00The timing was shaping up perfect for him.
02:03He got a fever, and we had to withdraw, which, it really broke all of our hearts.
02:07I'm very confident he would have won that race that day,
02:10and it just wasn't meant to be.
02:13They're off in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.
02:16It doesn't really happen very often this way,
02:18but in Cypher's Breeders' Cup, I was very happy the whole way.
02:23It was going perfectly.
02:24It was right where I wanted it to be, and you could tell he was loaded the whole way.
02:28So, it, like, it doesn't happen very often in racing, but it did that day for her.
02:34Cypher has it close to home from Brussels.
02:37Cypher's a Breeders' Cup winner!
02:39I turned to Cindy first and gave her a big hug and kiss,
02:42and then we all started shuffling down trying to get to the winner's circle.
02:46It's so hard to explain to somebody that doesn't know horse racing that feeling.
02:51When you win, and the end of winning a race of that caliber, how much goes into it,
02:56like, it just, a lot of things flash through your mind about, you know,
03:00your career, and what the filly has done for us.
03:04It's a moment of celebration, you know, the memories of a lifetime, really.
03:08It just means everything. It means everything.
03:12We gave Cypher a break after the Breeders' Cup.
03:15Well-deserved break.
03:17She tack-walked for a while, and we got her back going.
03:19She's had three breezes back since.
03:21She's doing excellent, and we are looking at the race at Keeneland.
03:25The limestone.
03:26It's on April 10th at Keeneland.
03:28I just love horses.
03:30I feel lucky because I chose to do this when I was young,
03:35and I never really had a doubt about it.
03:37You know, I love the action.
03:38I love winning.
03:40I love watching horses develop.
03:42You know, it's kind of crazy.
03:43We get to come out every morning, be outside with horses.
03:47I mean, why not?
03:49What else would you want to do?
03:58We'll be back.
03:59We'll be back.
03:59We'll be back.
04:00We'll be back.
04:00We'll be back.
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