We brought him back for the summer racing and we have stepped him up quickly in distance, we've kept him fresh and it has agreed with him.
She came into the race (last year) on a very light preparation and I wasn't actually able to train her for the race. I had to nurse her into the race and get her here as fit as I could on the day.
One project on the drawing board, and it may very well be the first thing that we'll be moving, is our diagnostic imaging department.
I don't know where I'll run him yet.
He was making ground on Primus in Sydney and wet or dry I think he will run well at Caulfield because he has won there.
I also think she could be closer in the run because of the blinkers.
He is still a bit immature-looking but he has furnished.
Just watching her last two runs, other horses have quickened around her a bit faster and I think the hood will help,
I think she goes into tomorrow's race as a far better racehorse.
We've got some work to do, ... but we'll go back and do that and get ready for the next one.
We conducted a feasibility study, and it was determined that a new hospital would be far too costly.
This time last year I was that dirty on the world because I believe that although she wasn't a mature horse she should have arguably won the race,
Digby said to me 'if you can catch him you can train him'.
Currently, the marketing plan for the Hospital Foundation is to raise money for new programs and for the future capital expansion of the east campus.
It's a joke for anyone to suggest that the ATA or the majority of trainers out there do not support the new integrity measures brought in from stewards regarding the swabbing procedures of horses.
It looked the ideal option for him if his form warranted it and I think his runs have been good enough.
I'm not sure how they would like a two year old to have a needle produced in front of it with two 14-stone blokes hanging off its ears as it's ready to compete in a Blue Diamond and think that wouldn't affect its performance.
I suggest such trainers get out of their air-conditioned offices and attend to a few horses when the vets are treating them, or follow such horses to the swabbing stall instead of sitting at home and watching it from their lounge rooms.
The mare's really done well over the past twelve months and like I say she has matured up very nicely.