Paul Webber Racing

TRAINER, DAUGHTER AND PUPPY PREPARING

TO GO RACING AT WORCESTER TODAY.

(or was it Epsom yesterday?)

What a thrill it was to be at Epsom for the last couple of days even though we did not quite receive the results we were looking for. As feared and documented, AUSTRALIA DAY was never happy on this unique track and spent too much energy leaning right on a sharp left-handed track! All is by no means lost and it will be back to his favoured track Ascot, for either The Wolverton Handicap (won by Ulundi) or more likely The Duke of Edinburgh Handicap over 1 1/2 miles.

We were cheering for Midas Touch in The Derby as he was bred and is part-owned by H.R.H. Prince Faisal Salman to whom I am Racing Manager. Midas Touch ran well to finish fifth but according to his jockey Colm O'Donohue, this horse did not handle the track either! See it can happen to Cropredy Lawn as well as Ballydoyle!!

Today it is less valuable fare at Worcester, but absolutely as important to us as Chantilly will be to others! Not sure if the good folk of Worcester will attend with quite the elegance of the French scene, but you just never know. EDGEVINE has a good each-way chance if we can discount her lacklustre show at Towcester. She was a little stiff in her back after that run but i would not be sure if we found the whole reason for that dull effort. OVERSPIN was travelling well when she slipped on landing at the fifth last at Southwell. This was irritating as she'd done nothing wrong and has not made a mistake at home or during her race. Both these horses need to win and then prove themselves worthy of joining their Owner's broodmare band, as in these days of over-production, we must try to only breed from the better achievers.