“I’m trying to keep my expectations relatively in check and the main thing is that the horse comes back safe and sound,” he said. “If he can show that he can at least be competitive at this level, then we know that we’ve still got something to work with moving forward. “However, with the greatest respect to what else is in the race, this horse, at his best, is in a completely different stratosphere to the rest of them. “There have been some pretty remarkable training feats from this team over the years,” he said. It was purely a case of picking which races we wanted to win.
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