CAS – recently is the only evidence you can go by though – will he train the horse hard to be ready for Newmarket or will his hyperbole over the horse lull him into thinking that he only has to show up and his talent will be enough to overcome things, not sure what to make of the following comment:
“He’s going to go to the Guineas without ever coming off the bridle in training at home, because we want to make sure he relaxes. In terms of speed, I don’t think we’ve ever had a horse as quick.
Somebody with Aidan’s experience who knows 2 yr olds don’t all develop at the same speed/time, you would think also wouldn’t make a comment like this:
“When we started working him in the spring of his two-year-old career, we thought all the juveniles were no good and he was the only one we had. He was that much above everything else. He’s very big, very powerful, wide and strong.
His dam was a 5 and 6F horse but she herself was out of a 1m winning 2 yr old that finished 2nd in a 12f G3, so it is a little mixed on the pedigree side and a lot of the Wootton Basset’s that stayed longer trips got that stamina from the dam that themself stayed further than a mile.
He looks like a sprinter type so he will likely need it to be a dry spring to make the ground on race day as least testing as possible (I wonder whether Aidan will ‘suggest’ that Andrew Morris not water Newmarket’s Rowley Mile too much).