00:07She's so spicy! She's so speedy in the sprint!
00:11And Fernando and Fernando Keyes have won the Freedom Cup sprint!
00:25I came from a horseman family. My father was a trainer in Venezuela. I was at the barn since probably
00:33my first day of life.
00:35I'm very competitive. I don't know if that's good or bad.
00:38If you want to compare jobs, like engineer or whatever, like if you are good, your results are good.
00:45But here, no matter what, how good you are, you have to win. No run second, third, no. Win.
00:53I decided to move here on May 2019. I started training claiming horses. That's not usual in Venezuela.
01:01So I have to figure out everything new. Nobody knows me here.
01:06I think I owe a lot to a horse named Jesus Team. The horse teach me, the horse show me,
01:11and put me on the map.
01:13We went to Breeders' Cup, and the horse was like the big, long shot. That was my first Breeders' Cup.
01:20You see people from all the world with horses competing against you, the top of the top, and it's amazing.
01:26Breeders' Cup to me is like always the goal, because it's like where you define the champion.
01:32She's so spicy. It's a special filly. I remember her since the OBS sale, where I told Rich Mendez, his
01:39owner, like don't sell her.
01:41Keep her to run, because I really like her. When I saw her on the lead, Rich asked me, hey,
01:48are we good?
01:49Because she went too fast. I think I was 21. I said yes. She's good, because I saw the way
01:54that she was moving was easy for her.
01:56There's no catching. She's so spicy. She's so speedy in the sprint. She won it by four lengths on the
02:03wire.
02:09I was with my father. I remember perfect. I told him we did it, because it was a long year.
02:15People don't know like all the efforts that you make to bring the horses there. I was so excited and
02:22happy and jumping.
02:23But like I run to Ventronato like nothing happened to him. I'm ready for more.
02:30I was a little nervous, different than the filly. I was very confident on the filly and the fractions, because
02:35she was by herself.
02:36But he was fighting since the start.
02:38But Ventronato, and Armando Ortiz have won the Breeders' Cup script.
02:43I was very reflexive that night. Just grateful about everything, but we don't celebrate too much.
02:51Like at 8 p.m. I was sleeping. It was full of emotions, but ready for the future.
02:58Every morning I wake up excited, like the reason are the horses. Like they motivate you, at least me, to
03:07do better.
03:09Every horse is different, and whatever you do in one horse, don't say they're going to work in another horse.
03:14They are here talking to you, but if you miss something, you miss everything.
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