Funny Horse Racing Quotes

Grand National winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald: "Sex is an anti-climax after that!"
Desmond Lynam (sports presenter): "Well, you gave the horse a wonderful ride, everyone saw that." (BBC)

Willie Carson, riding his 180th winner of the season, spent the last two
furlongs looking over one shoulder, then another between his legs, but
there was nothing there to worry him." (Sporting Life)

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. (Ted Walsh, Horse Racing Commentator)

The US Postal Service honored legendary race horse champion Secretariat with his own postage stamp. That shows you how strange life is for racehorses. You win the race, you wind up on the front of the stamp. Lose a race, you wind up on the back.

Brough Scott: What are your immediate thoughts, Walter ?
Walter Swinburn: I don't have any immediate thoughts at the moment

Harvey Smith: "As you travel the world, do you do a lot of traveling ?"

Dorian Williams: "He's a very competitive competitor, that's the sort of competitor he is."

Jerry Seinfeld, on what a horse must think after a race is over: "They must get to the end and go, 'We were just here.' What's the point of that?"

D. Wayne Lukas, referring to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, and gelding, Funny Cide: "The ultimate equipment change."

Kenny Mayne, before the running of the Belmont Stakes: "Other than being castrated, things have gone quite well for Funny Cide."

Joe E. Lewis, comedian: "This is the only place where the windows clean the people."

Vic Stauffer, track announcer at Hialeah in 1993, calling a race with a horse named Altmagraenguida, after two vain attempts at pronouncing the horse's name, he surrendered during the stretch run: "Here comes the number 4."