What is your proudest moment in racing?
It was winning the title at Saratoga
for the 11th consecutive year; I think
that is probably one of the biggest
accomplishments of my career. The year
I won the 11th title, I got hurt the year
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started riding in the middle of July and the
doctor said that because he had to remove
my spleen and operate on my liver that I
wouldn't be able to take the heat of the
competition as I had before. I wasn't riding
that many horses when we left Belmont.
When we got to Saratoga, I knew that to
win the title I had to ride every race and
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it probably was not going to be too good
for me to get on so many horses in the
morning and ride in the afternoon in my
condition. And I did it and I'm very proud
that I was able to do that. The next year I
was healthy and I got beat. That made me
more proud than anything. It made me a
very proud person to come back from an
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months - and to go to Saratoga and win the
title.
