Chantal Sutherland Quotes

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.

The National is about however long it takes to run that race - eight minutes of fame - but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn't swap any of my winners for the National.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

… human thoroughbreds

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.

I wanted to see if I could win a championship in San Antonio.

The Triple Crown is an attractive target because it is so difficult to achieve.

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