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More and more, take a rest around the wall.

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Okay, like that is good.

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John, you've seen most of the derby winners in the past 10-15 years.

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How would you compare foolish pleasure to some of the better ones you've seen?

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Every year is a different era.

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It's like trying to match fighters from one time to the other.

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Every horse that has a chance to run in a derby and wins a derby has accomplished a great thing.

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So you can't say one's better than the other.

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That's my theory. I don't know about anybody else's.

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Like Fargo, he can run until six, seven years old.

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But he's not going to run until this fall because he's got other commitments.

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He's got to make old babies.

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People get four and a half million dollars for him.

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I was going to say, you said that you had had him insured for five million dollars.

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I didn't say that. I was misquoted.

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I said I imagine he might be insured for that much money.

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We were just making a statement how much it cost to insure one of these things.

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The premiums are very high. It's about 25 percent to insure.

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And I was just talking to that one fellow there.

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And it was just a statement. It was misinterpreted.

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I don't know exactly how much it is, but it should be pretty close to that.

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As far as the race here tomorrow is concerned, how does it look to you?

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Do you see any real competition for foolish pleasure?

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Anytime you run, you have competition.

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It makes no difference who it is. There's no easy thing.

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Every race is tough, and they're all tough.

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If you had to pick a horse tomorrow that might challenge foolish pleasure, who might it be?

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How many horses in the race?

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Eight.

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Eight? I'd have to say there's about seven challenges.

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You're playing it pretty close to the best on this one, John.

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Well, you have to. I mean, every horse is in there, and they're weighted.

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You know, why they're weighted.

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And this is why they're in there for it, because they've all got a chance.

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Every horse has a chance.

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You can't say one has too much better chance than the other, but that's why they're handicapped that way.

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To bring them down pretty close to equal.

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As far as this horse is concerned, do you see it eventually going into syndication a la secretariat?

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Well, he's already been syndicated. He's been syndicated over a year.

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Do you think that after he races this fall, will then a decision be made on his racing future beyond that, or...

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His racing future is over in November.

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That's it?

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That's it. He goes to Instud next spring in February.

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Okay, good. Can we just get...I'll ask you some of the same questions I just asked.

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John, if you had to pick a challenger, who would you pick as a challenger to foolish pleasure tomorrow?

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There's all eight horses in there. Every one of them's got a shot.

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When you were riding, did you approach every race that way?

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Did you look for a particular horse, or did you think, hey, look, anybody can beat me?

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You've got to have...everything could beat you, but you've got to have the aggressiveness to try to beat them too.

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But you can't drop nothing out and say this horse is no count, because this is the horse that had to beat you.

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Every horse that's in a race has a shot. That's why the people put them in there.

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If you had to describe foolish pleasure as a horse, how would you describe him as a runner?

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Like I said, more so like he's more so like a Larry Zonk or a Marciano comparing to O.J. Simpson and Muhammad Ali.

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Okay.

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Thank you.