Breeders' Cup Connections: Taylor Cambra and Subsanador, Born for This

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00:00I'm from Northern California.

00:13My dad was an outrider up there for 40 years and he always had a couple of his own race

00:19horses that he trained on the side and I just remember going to the track every morning

00:24before school.

00:25My first job was raking hot walking rings and cleaning bridles like I'd go around barn

00:31to barn and exercise riders would pay me five, ten dollars to clean bridles for them.

00:37It's in my blood.

00:38It's all I've ever wanted to do was be a race horse trainer.

00:42I originally came to Southern California with a trainer and I was his assistant and galloping

00:47for him and when he went back up north I seen how great this place was and I said I can't

00:54go back up there.

00:55I'm going to try and make it here and me and I walked around for two weeks looking for

00:59a job and nobody wanted to hire me.

01:01Everybody said I was too big to gallop.

01:04Finally I was going to give up and go home back to Northern California and there was

01:09two people I haven't asked yet.

01:10One was Richard and one was Bob Baffert so I said you know what before I leave might

01:15as well go give it a shot.

01:17When I came here Richard asked me if I could ride bad colts I said I can ride anything

01:21you got and just started from there.

01:24I've got the pleasure of being around some nice ones in this barn.

01:27Omaha Beach is definitely the star of the show.

01:30It's hard to explain the way he felt underneath you.

01:32He was so strong, so smooth, united, won quite a few stakes and we got to run him in the

01:38breeder's cup a couple times.

01:40I'm in a good spot now with Richard and I'm learning something new every day.

01:46Those horses will teach you what they like, what they don't like.

01:48It's a challenge.

01:51We got the Sub-Sanador from John Sadler and he's been very good for us so far.

01:57He wasn't very big but he had a presence about him that he stood out a little bit.

02:02We already knew he was a good horse coming in.

02:05We won the race in Monmouth as of late.

02:08He won the inaugural California crown.

02:11Now he broke good, broke on top.

02:19Mike was thinking to go but National Treasures obviously is pretty fast so he just let that

02:25horse go and Mike does such a good job just getting him to relax.

02:32Really that horse doesn't mind dirt hitting him in the face at all.

02:36If anything he likes it, gets him fired up but he never lets him get too far out of it.

02:41He just keeps him up there and keeps him in a good position to do something.

02:46Here I'm thinking, I don't know, but he's got a lot of fight.

02:51He kind of puts his head up when he touches him with the whip so he puts it away and just

02:55starts hand riding him.

03:02That's all heart right there.

03:04My hands are sore from high-fiving each other after the race.

03:09The Breeders' Cup, it's our Olympics, it's the end goal.

03:14As long as he just keeps improving the way he's doing right now, I think we'll have a

03:17pretty good shot at either, whether he runs in the Ma or the Classic.

03:21We used to watch the great horses on TV when I was a kid and never did I ever think that

03:26I would get to be around them, let alone ride a horse like Omaha Beach or get to work with

03:32a horse like Subsanador every day.

03:35It is a dream come true.

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