Horse Selection Quotes

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you'll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.

The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

You can have the most amazing horse in the world and not be able to ride it, so it has to be a good match for sure.