"Perhaps the most intriguing part is that Thomas is not a turf writer or a serious handicapper. Instead, he specializes in equine athletic psychology, with an emphasis on emotional conformation profiling. In other words, he is looking for horses with trainable minds because those quirks and personality traits we talk about are more than just fun anecdotes."

"Twirling Candy caught his rival in only a few strides, cut the corner, rallied inside his workmate into the lane, and finished powerfully while drawing off by five lengths. 'Geez, what a horse,' Sadler said. No poker face. He could not wipe away his smile."

"... rather than lament the shrinking schedules or the declining significance of some traditional preps, it might instead be more appropriate to applaud the trainers who don't feel constrained by methods of the past but who adapt to the needs of individual horses. What worked for Citation obviously wouldn't have worked for Super Saver."