"He is certainly promising and until his form proves otherwise, I would imagine that his new connections are of the opinion that he will prove to be a graded class performer this year"

"For the 2nd race in a row he has produced a career best performance over a 7 furlong trip and that is where I think he should remain for now".

There will be plenty of big name purchases on the list this year and as hard as Dan Skelton and his team have worked to recruit horses in the last 2 years, I still get the overriding sense that Willie Mullins simply does it better. However, if we take Closutton out of the equation, then there is no doubt in my mind that the best recruitment is going on at the Skelton yard and I have a small hunch that in securing SACRE CHEF, they might have recruited a talented horse. The for

"I’m going to just park the “G” next to his name for a moment and talk about the impressive debut that Operator made at Clairefontaine on Monday afternoon under Mickael Barzalona".

She earned €16,012 for this victory at Clairefontaine and there is every reason to think that she can add to that in the weeks and months ahead, with some valuable Black Type presumably the ultimate aim.