Jerry Bailey
Jerry Bailey
Jerry D. Baileyis an NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst and a retired American Hall of Fame jockey...
ProfessionHorse Jockey
Date of Birth29 August 1957
CityDallas, TX
future hold took turn turned
I took a hold of him to see how much he would turn offthinking of the future mile-and-a-halfand he turned off fine,
cuts hope learning loose reason room second shook shown time top
He shook loose at the top of the stretch, but that was the second time he lugged in. But he's young, and we hope it's just a learning process. He has shown he has a lot of room for improvement, especially if he cuts out the two-year-old stuff. But he is very unique, and part of the reason is because he has a whole lot of ones (victories).
horse
He was the most genuine, charismatic horse I've been on in my life.
expect explosions grueling type
I don't think you can expect those explosions you get in shorter races. It's more of a long, grueling type of racing.
asked good lack lined looked month people sale worked
I'm not really surprised. If you had asked me a month ago, I would have said I didn't have those expectations, but it all worked out and as people lined up on the horse, he looked like he could potentially be a sale topper. You don't know before you come to the sale what's going to happen, but he's been as good as we've had all year. It was a lack of nothing wrong. He just did everything right. There were no problems.
confident felt front horses knew moment strong turned
I really felt confident the moment I turned up the (backstretch). I knew I had the horses in front of me; I felt pretty strongly. I know Borrego comes with a strong run, but I was actually pretty confident all around.
chance hit
I didn't think I had a chance to hit the board.
great last
If it is my last one, it's a great way to go out.
access areas grim heard
There's a lot of areas we haven't been able to get access to but from what we've heard it's a pretty grim picture.
eat either guess hay hero
You're either a hero or a goat. I guess I'll go eat hay tonight.
becomes extremely lawsuit sooner
We've been extremely patient. We've done everything we can to accommodate them. Sooner or later, the lawsuit becomes necessary.
dangerous far less seat
This new seat will be far less dangerous than my old one.
accessible food
We're only able to look at getting food to the accessible pockets,
broke few ground instead leader leave saving stayed trying
When he broke, he broke out sharply and stayed there for 20 or 30 yards, so instead of saving ground for the first few jumps, I was loosing ground. I was trying to keep him off the leader as long as I could to leave him with a target.