Sunday Silence
The pre-Kentucky Derby publicity for Arazi was compared to that of Silky Sullivan in 1958. Newspaper reporters and television crews met Arazi's plane at Louisville's Standiford Field. In interviews, jockey Steve Cauthen rated the colt in the same class as Affirmed, on whom he had won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1978. Jockey Patrick Valenzuela, who had ridden Arazi in his Breeders' Cup win and won the 1989 Derby aboard Sunday Silence said, "Arazi can do more [than Sunday Silence]." He added, "This race is over."