"It's been an amazing ride for the last year. I've been putting my best foot forward and it has paid off."

"Here I'm thinking trainer Doug O'Neill is a great guy, friendly as anyone you might meet, a soft spot for the children's hospital I know so well, but now they're telling me he's a horse murderer and cheater."

"We’ve got a facility Breeders’ Cup would love. It’s got acres and acres of skyboxes and luxury suites and a big director’s room. It would be easy to adapt this place to tents and things like that. We’ve got more hotel rooms around here than perhaps any track in the country." Also: "As long as the statistics are showing how much safer it is than dirt, we’d be foolish to move to dirt."

"There's some things we have to work out down here," Harper said. "We want to do it. They want to come, but there's some issues we have to be clear on." Environmental issues, housing among the things to be worked out.

Polytrack results through August 17, 2007