Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away
A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.
There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.
Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.
One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.
CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.
There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.
He's a very competitive competitor, that's the sort of competitor he is.
I try to keep myself in the best of company and my horses in the worst of company.
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.
And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte
There are four different cars filling the first four places.
With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.
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