- Stable star: Powerful Breeze
- Horse to follow: Ironclad
- Handicapper to follow: Collide
Older horses
Almufti
He had a really good winter for us on the all-weather and I don't see why he wouldn't be effective on turf. He's had a wind operation and seemed to grow in confidence. He wouldn't want extremes of ground and would probably want a nice, level track as well, nothing too uphill or down dale.
Caravan Of Hope
Here's a horse I'm very sweet on. He was an immature horse last year, he ran seven times and was never out of the frame. He won his last two, at Ascot and then he bolted up over a mile and six on soft ground at Doncaster. Good ground or softer is important for him and I think he'll easily stay two miles. He's only rated in the 80s so he might be a horse for the Northumberland Vase or something. Any other of those staying races when conditions suit will be his bag as he's very likeable. He's been gelded but he was pretty genuine.
Chankaya
He just had the one start. He’s a Dubawi half-brother to Aktabantay who was my first Group Three winner. He’s really done very well from two to three. He finished down the field at Nottingham having made a rather ambitious mid-race move that day. He went into a few notebooks I think with the way he travelled but the ground caught him out. I think he’s a high-level handicapper at least.
Eastern Sheriff
He won well on debut and is a full brother to the St Leger winner Harbour Law. He’s turning into a lovely-looking horse and is working nicely. He’ll get better and better and should stay further too so we’ll see where we get to with him, I’d love to bring him along gradually to become a smart stayer. I hope that if he was to become something of an international stayer then he might remain in the same ownership which would be exciting.
Emissary
He’s done exceptionally well over the winter. He’s the Kingman half-brother to Workforce and he won his maiden very well at Wolverhampton at the back end of the season. He’s training nicely and we can dream he might be a Derby horse, if and when and where that happens. He did plenty wrong on debut and was very green but his best furlong was the furlong after the line. That run was at nine furlongs and it looks like he’ll stay and he was briefly in the Derby, before that cancelled all the entries a few weeks ago. Hopefully we’ll be able to run him in a trial or something along those lines.
