Some even let them track you during the workout or, for example, a big race.
But he was full of confidence for King of Kings under big race specialist Michael Kinane.
Smith smashed the course record by 20 seconds at the warm-up event for next month's big race in the capital.
At Doncaster, the pair enjoyed a big race-day treble, and it all felt like the sign of things to come.
"It is a pretty big race, " says Merck Vice President Eric Rubin.
Nick Mitchell's The Listener is also an entry in Saturday's big race.
The jockey claimed the first of three Epsom Derby successes when he won the big race for Cecil on Oath in 1999.
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This is what has made international stars of big race jockeys like Frankie Dettori, Johnny Murtagh from Ireland and Christophe Soumillon from Belgium.
Former Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star will be in action in Saturday's JNwine.com Champion Chase - the big race in the two-day festival.
Kauto Star fell in last year's big race, and although he won well on his seasonal return, he was out of sorts at Kempton.
He has clocked up most of his big race victories in recent years, with a French Derby win on Celtic Swing in 1995 among the highlights.
Llewellyn won the 1998 National on Earth Summit, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, six years after winning the big race in General Election week aboard Party Politics.
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On Tuesday, bookmakers slashed Horatio Nelson's odds from about 8-1 to 4-1 following a series of sizeable bets ahead of the 227th running of the big race.
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The big race of the first day of the festival is the Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes, a Group Two race for older horses run over one mile four furlongs.
"We are delighted there have been no fatalities in today's big race, " Dr. Mark Kennedy from the World Society for the Protection of Animals told CNN on Saturday .
However, there are thousands of birds in a big race, so losing 75% of them in some events is noteworthy, even if many people consider pigeons to be no better than flying rats.
About 15, 000 people gather near the end of the Big Sur race in Carmel, Calif.
Williamson's big-race experience will stand him in good stead when he returns to the Festival.
Meanwhile, there was a surprise winner of the day's big betting race, the William Hill Great St Wilfrid Handicap at York.
Although O'Brien's horses seem to have picked up from where they left off last season, Kinane has endured some big-race frustration in 2002.
Yet he savoured several big-race successes in 2001, most notably when Sakhee claimed the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, notching up Dettori's 100th career Group One win.
Mr. Thurston, in Boston on Monday to watch the race, said he would meet with his security personnel to determine whether any additional measures would be implemented in the Big Sur race.
The United States still has big problems with race (see article), but its effect in the general election may be exaggerated.
Another big concern of race executives: How to go about bolstering security if "bolstering security" means trying to screen tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of spectators lining a 26.2-mile course.
Still, a mistake by a spotter or shoddy pit work can always play a role in a race this big.
The big story of this race right now is Evans' May 18 announcement that he has been suffering from Parkinson's disease since 1995.
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