“I got the vet to look at him. She said, ‘nothing much wrong there, give him some anti-inflammatories’. But I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted to let nature take its course. “He doesn’t owe me a zak. I just tipped him out. Touch wood he is going along nicely now and has benefited. He’s stronger and he’s heavier, whether he is improved we don’t know. But he will have to, because he is going to be against some good open-class gallopers, and he will meet some very good stayers on the way through. “In this caper, like a lot of sports, it’s a game of inches. Everyone who looks at him says he looks well, but we will find out when we get to race day. And we are not really be able to answer that question until he gets up to 10 furlongs (2000 metres).”
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