BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

October 30, 2004

Carl Barth

Ramon Dominguez

Chris Dwyer

Brent Johnson

H. Graham Motion

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: Sure. I feel pretty strongly what happened. I feel like just, basically, I held my ground. I had full control of my horse the full time. He said, "Well," (inaudible) true, but that was not the case today as far as me interfering with the other horses. The other horse tried to go around the leader, but I had every right to just open up and that's what I did. (Inaudible) and I don't feel like I did anything that anybody else wouldn't have done.

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: It was a combination, very predictable at that point. It was everybody racing for the rider position. The horse was inside holding the ground and, therefore, he was coming out some. Johnny was (inaudible) and I was just, once again, holding my ground and (inaudible) too hard at that point. (Inaudible) run into me and a combination of both.

BRENT JOHNSON: I just felt the turf division this year wasn't that strong. Honestly, it comes from Graham Motion, such a fantastic trainer. This horse last Friday wasn't quite up to par, but we were actually thinking about whether we should run the race or not. Graham told us, this is what we do, the size of the work-out, the horse was so super last week. Graham said he went super. I was telling Graham's wife. When I hear "super" come out of Graham's mouth, I felt like we had a chance. I thought we had a chance and should take a shot.

GRAHAM MOTION: I felt pretty comfortable down the back side. (Inaudible) I think they went a little slow early on. I felt that we were pretty comfortable where we were. When did I feel he was going to run well? I don't really know. It's a bit of a blur for me.

GRAHAM MOTION: Like Brent said, we were very close to not running this horse today. They recently changed the surface on Fairhill and everybody talked about it, it was an (inaudible), but we came this close to not running today. We all talked about it. We talked about it over and over again. We thought we had to come on as long as the horse acted like he was doing well, so we did and here we are.

GRAHAM MOTION: I don't know if he has really improved. I think he is back where he was last year. I think he is getting a little better with age. I blame Brent for the first trip to Texas. I will take credit for the second one. (Inaudible) very tricky horse. It was a cruel way for the inquiry, because we had been through this once before. I wasn't clear exactly what had happened, but knowing the (inaudible) I was very worried, you know.

GRAHAM MOTION: I was trying to grab them and make sure they knew it was my horse.

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: I mean, I think the race, I was happy with my horse. Graham (inaudible), and relaxed and I felt like (inaudible) the horse early on, but quite honestly, when I wasn't approaching the 5/8 poll, closer to the half mile, I was getting goosebumps seeing how the race was developing in front of me. Up to the 7/8ths, the leader for the half mile was right in front of me. I said, "What kind of bold move." It seems like everybody was going after Kitten's Joy. So it was going to develop for me later on and that's what it did. My horse came on strong.

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: It reminded me of the feeling I got when I rode Storm Dancer. He was himself and really came on pretty good.

CHRIS DWYER: (Inaudible).

CHRIS DWYER: That's why I kept telling Brent and Carl and our buddies that came up, if he won this race he is going to come back over and over and over again.

GRAHAM MOTION: I think it was a good race for running. We didn't have to worry about the stallion career.

CHRIS DWYER: This is why we got into this. It's a lot of fun. Days like this are so memorable that you want to keep coming back. Once you get bit by the bug, it's a bad bug to get bit by.

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: I mean, I work on a daily basis and (inaudible) more than I have so far. I have a chance to mention my agent's name (inaudible) I don't know what the future holds for me. Hopefully -- part of the area which is something I hope everybody understands, search for the bigger horses and bigger races. It is very addictive when you come to a place like this and win a place of this caliber, you start feeling (inaudible) and that's why you want to win more and more. I have to take advantage of the moment and thank (inaudible) again because of my career. He is one of the few guys that really gave me a good shot, some very good horses when I was fairly unknown. That is something I have always appreciated.

RAMON DOMINGUEZ: The reason he didn't ride for Graham anymore is Graham fired him.

GRAHAM MOTION: Yes. I haven't told you yet, but we are not running him again.

CHRIS DWYER: I already had my flight to Hong Kong booked.

GRAHAM MOTION: We will have fun with him next year. The horse is in good condition. This will be a hard race on him today. (Inaudible) that's why we are here today.

GRAHAM MOTION: I have been on the wrong side of so many of these. With him, the way he acts, I didn't see clearly what happened. I know what he does. I was very worried. It was a cruel five minutes. I expect (inaudible).