“Unfortunately he’d gone feral and we couldn’t re-introduce him into the home. He ended up living with my friend’s parents in Preston.” This is the commentary moment of the World Cup and it will not be beaten. Ever.
Christophe Soumillon told the panel he had seen a group of schoolchildren on the bend earlier in the day and that he had moved Puerto Rico away from the rail over concerns their presence would disadvantage his horse
🗣️ "When I walked the track, there was a big group of kids. There were probably 50 kids near the rail on the inside, just at the entrance to the straight.
"So that was a place where I thought, maybe I should stay a little bit away from there, because when you have a horse in front, you want him to concentrate and not getting disturbed and losing his momentum for any reason.
"In Longchamp, he hangs out really badly in the last 200 metres. Because he's like like this, I wanted to make sure that this didn't happen."
RTE coverage has been awful. Smugness of the former Irish players in particular. No Irish WC Qual for 24 years. We (rightly) celebrated qualifying for semi-final of a play-off like we had won the whole thing.
@racehorsesrace1 If I died in the morning you wouldn’t see it make the Racing Post for obvious reasons! Welcome to the real world fella all things high profile attract more attention!