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Voices From The Grandstand

• Trainer Gary Contessa after saddling the 2000th winner of his career:

  I thought the gods of racing were going to torture me for a couple of weeks before I won this one, so I’m glad I got it behind me.

• Owner/breeder Eugene Melynk, quoted in Thoroughbred Daily News, on his interest in holding on to his breaking-and-training facility in Ocala while downsizing other aspects of his Thoroughbred activities:

  I want to stay there unless either zoning or taxation changes to the detriment of the operation -- we’d be gone in less time than a Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

• CBS/Golf Channel commentator David Feherty describing Bill Murray’s get-up at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am:

  He looks like a cross between George Armstrong Custer and the rider of the seventh race at Santa Anita.

• Jimbo Fischer, Florida State's football coach, discussing the importance of recruiting on ESPN Radio:

  You need players that compete at the highest level. You don't take a donkey to the Kentucky Derby.