Dan Hendricks Quotes

"Special? Now that is a big word, like genius. It should not be thrown around. Special should be reserved for Triple Crown winners and horses like Spectacular Bid. (Brother Derek) is a very nice horse and he has gotten better and better."

"Lying in a hospital bed, I had a lot of time to think about everything. When you look at a horse race and you look at the fighting in Iraq, it puts things into perspective."

"If it were two turns, that would have been totally different. I know that he's a two-turn horse. He proved it today."

"All they talked about was the winner and the third-place horse. He was ready to go a mile and an eighth."

"He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game."