Horse Owners Quotes

Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.

I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.

I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.

Then we went across the line, and I was like 'Oh my god, we just won the Melbourne Cup.'

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

I grew up going to race rings, and I really enjoyed it.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought.