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00:00Hall of Fame trainer Suge McGehee is back at the Preakness for the first time since
00:062013 with a contender who seems to have a lot of upside potential.
00:11We spoke with McGehee about PErforM and his chances on Saturday.
00:15I like this weekend down here, I think it's a lot of fun, you know it's kind of sectional
00:21so you see a lot of people you don't see year round and there's a lot of enthusiasm as you
00:27can see this morning, it'll even be more tomorrow and Saturday and I'm glad to be here.
00:35His main races going short were okay, but then when I stretched him out it made a big
00:41difference around two turns, ran him at Tampa, I ran, Ortiz rode him and he got him to relax
00:48really well coming off the sprints and he finished really well so then I decided to
00:52bring him down here and run him in the Tezio, I thought it was the best option for him and
00:59the way he ran that day and finished up good and you know I listened to Fergal's interview
01:06and he said it's too bad this horse isn't nominated to the Preakness because he's that
01:09kind of horse, but I knew something he didn't know, so we thought we were okay that the
01:16people would supplement and so that's kind of what led us to get here, I mean you know
01:21he's had since then everything's been good with him, he had a very very good work here on last
01:28Sunday at Belmont and they kind of spurred me on, seems to be getting on the track really well you
01:37know and his gallops and you know we'll see what happens, see if he likes it on Saturday afternoon,
01:43it would mean a lot, you know it's really top of my list and you know as I've said I've said I've
01:51never won it and if he's standing in the stall I'm still never gonna win it so I'd have to wait
01:57a while so I'm very excited about the opportunity and if I could get all three of them that would
02:03mean a lot.