Champion Jockey Oisin Murphy talks through his latest week that included several winners and a sit on Kameko, while he looks ahead to his Champions Day rides.
I’ve had a good week, riding five or six winners, and it’s important to keep the momentum going into QIPCO British Champions Day and beyond with several big prizes still to play for including at the Breeders’ Cup.
I’m keeping busy, both on the track and off it, and I rode work at Andrew Balding’s on Wednesday where I put Morando through his paces ahead of the Long Distance Cup.
He felt in good shape and I sat on Kameko as well, who was been trained for Champions Day until the testing ground scuppered our plan to run him in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
It’s a shame as he feels in super form for this time of year, he’s very fresh and as long as he can maintain that sort of well-being we’ll be very happy to go to America for the Breeders’ Cup Mile with him.
Looking at the ante-post betting he’s favourite now, with Pinatubo retired, and that’s very exciting.
I’m sure the test out at Keeneland will suit him. He’s quite intuitive, so when I’m sitting in the gate on him he’ll read my body language and jump fast, into the bridle and get racing.
He’ll like the configuration of the track and the ground if it’s fast, he just looks the ideal type for the race to my eyes.
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