17th September 2013

Max Ward was disappointing and I am kicking myself for running him on that ground. I thought he'd handle it, I walked the course twice and genuinely felt it wasn't that bad, it walked faster than it rode and the ground is the only excuse we can come up with. The winner is above average, however, I would have thought we would have been a bit closer. We will see how he comes out of the race and look for something on a quicker surface - when will we get that, gods knows. We could be racing on bog for the next 5 months with English weather. I am absolutely gutted with todays performance, it is all very well for trainers with plenty of horses to have a disappointing day but for us it is much harder to take. We have very few runners and like to make them count when we do run them. Its a tough game and you just have to pick yourself up and look forward.