In the Kingdom of Bahrain….
The luck of the draw…..??
MAX MAYHEM and NESTHORN drawing the widest stall positions in the mile and a quarter Turf Series race. Lee Newman and Benoit de la Sayette have some canny navigation decisions ahead of them. Two runners – the two widest stalls. I don’t think I have been overtly rude to anybody over there…..?!
The luck of the draw….
Heavy rain was not part of the desert script either. They raced on “Soft” ground yesterday. A different track today, and the description given by Andy Waitt, the excellent Clerk of the Course, is “Good”. DESERT COP at his best on proper fast ground. And so the “A Team” in The Kingdom will monitor conditions and speak to jockeys in earlier races before making a call on whether to run or not….
The Turf Series runs through until the beginning of March. No point in wasting bullets in early skirmishes when there are plenty of options ahead…
Michael Hourigan. Legendary trainer. Beef Or Salmon and many many more…
I loved this from a recent Racing Post interview…
“Don’t be afraid to work and don’t be looking in over the ditch at what the other fella is doing,” he says. “Put your head down and, if it’s what you want, then go at it. Do everything within your power and don’t worry about anybody else. Be yourself, don’t be anybody else and don’t want to be anybody else. Make somebody else want to be you.”
