Hello Youmzain is a top-class performer for Kevin Ryan

2020 Kevin Ryan Stable Tour featuring Hello Youmzain, Emaraaty Ana and Repartee

By Sporting Life

Horse Racing

Wed April 15, 2020 · 5y ago

Kevin Ryan talks us through the "strongest team" he's ever had as the North Yorkshire trainer looks forward to the resumption of racing in 2020.

This is the strongest team we’ve ever had, in particular our sprinters who look extremely good. We have Hello Youmzain and Glass Slippers who stay in training alongside the likes of Bielsa and Brando. Brando looks magnificent and despite being eight he looks as well as I’ve seen him. He’s a pleasure to train and real favourite of the yard.

We also have Emaraaty Ana who won a conditions race last year after trying to get him to stay a bit further in the Guineas. He'll be dropped back in trip and stick to sprinting and I still think he could be top class.

The horses are still exercising and they started cantering again this week, we’re just waiting to get the all clear.

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Stable Star: Glass Slippers

Horse to Follow: Divina Gloria

Handicapper to Follow: Bielsa

Older horses

Bielsa

He had little niggles when he was younger, which had made him tricky to train. However, he had a great season last year and ended up being favourite for a listed race on the last day of the season at Doncaster before the meeting was abandoned. He improved from a mark in the 80s to 101. He’s the type of horse we’d look to aim at races like the Wokingham or Stewards' Cup.

Bin Makfi

I thought that he’d win at Southwell and was a bit disappointing. We then took him to Newcastle and he ran much better. He shows us ability with his work at home and I’d be disappointed if we couldn’t get a win or two out of him this season.

Brando

He’s come back looking fantastic, although you have to remember that he’s only had 37 races in his career. He runs in the same races each year. Unfortunately his usual starting point is the Abernant which looks unlikely to go ahead, so we’ll look further out to the July Cup. He loves Newmarket, either course, so we’ll see what happens and then we’ll go from there. He’s working really well and you wouldn’t know he’s eight years old. He’s a joy to train and has given both this owners and the team great pleasure.

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Two-year-olds

We were just getting going with the two-year-olds doing a bit of fast work before we had to stop. We are building them up again and there’s a lot of really nice pedigrees amongst them. I’m looking forward to seeing them in the coming months.