It’s been a case of slowing him down rather than quickening him up. We’re looking after him for the meantime before he goes down (to Australia) and tries to stay two miles on his first start. He’s been a very straightforward horse to train, and we’ve always had it in the back of our minds that he’s not really ‘our’ horse. We’re still getting to know him but over the last couple of weeks, he’s started to thrive. George Boughey, Hoo Ya Mal: “He came to the yard not that long before his first run at Goodwood.

He was only just getting going as they crossed the line, I don’t think he disgraced himself, he ran fine, he just showed us he isn’t that type of horse.” He’d won over one-mile-and-six-furlongs at Ascot and looked as though he needed every yard of it, but over the mile and a half at Longchamp the ground was very quick it was a speed test over a trip. I’m not sure whether he was at his best or whether he showed that day he was a real staying horse. Roger Varian, Eldar Eldarov: “I thought his run in the Grand Prix de Paris was a fair performance, I don’t think he disgraced himself. The extra half a furlong is a little bit of an unknown, but I’d like to think she has every chance of staying.” I think she’ll stay – the way she hit the line at York you’d think a mile and six should be within her compass. We could find out that she’s not up to this level, but if she’s improved from York she should be there or thereabouts. It’s a top race, but to have an unexposed filly going for it is exciting. Obviously the Godolphin horse (New London) is very good, Roger Varian’s (Eldar Eldarov) is a Royal Ascot winner and we know the form of George Boughey’s horse (Hoo Ya Mal) from the Derby with Westover.

She’s an unbeaten filly and she’s been supplemented for the last Classic of the year. That’s why after the Gordon Stakes we always wanted to come straight here.”īarry Mahon Haskoy: “She adds something to the race. I just think he’d run a good, solid race at the Craven meeting a few weeks earlier and he’s best when he’s fresh. People might say was that the trip and ground at the time, but I don’t think it was either. The only blip he’s had on his page was in the Chester Vase. I’ve always said we wanted to come here as a fresh horse. Charlie Appleby, New London: “He had a piece of work on Wednesday and looked great.

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