Last night was very interesting. Mark Johnson spoke for the majority of the time and it was great to hear his views on various topics. Although all trainers suffer the same problems, I concluded that training flat horses is far less challenging than training NH horses. Martin and David Pipe were there, the reports on Vazaro Delafayette and Knight Of Noir were encouraging. I sat with Alan King and his team, Billy Biscuit is also pleasing everyone. Vazaro and Billy are expected to run in bumpers in October Knight of Noir is a bit further behind.
Hopstrings has been declared to run at Uttoxeter on Sunday, it isn't a great contest on paper and I think she should go close. I have pencilled in a couple of options for Max Ward in October, he has come out of his race very well and was very bouncy to sit on this morning.
