In the recording, an emotional Dot could be heard saying: What did that little girl ever do to live a life of losing everything she ever loved. She didn't do nothing, she just wanted someone to love her, to care for her, to pin her drawings on the wall. And I'm sitting here and I'm still alone.
With the closing of the Pleasanton stables, we are forced to relocate with the 10 horses in our care to Seattle's Emerald Downs track, like many other trainers. They're sending us away without any benefit for us. We don't have retirement, or any benefits at all, Floriberta said in Spanish through an interpreter. It's really hard to leave. We work as a family, and now we're going to have to.â
"There's always two reactions. You have your personal reaction, which is the 'who, what, when, where, why.' In the beginning [his death] was a tough one to swallow. I've been very connected to this character for a while. Once you get past that ocean of emotion, at the end of the day, so much of what we do as artists is really about the bigger picture."