Battaash was a disappointing 4th at York earlier today.  He looked a bit on edge at the start, his temperament sometimes gets the better of him unfortunately, he has that brilliance about him, but only occasionally.

When I was working for Godolphin, we had a number of really good horses.  One horse that reminds me a bit of Battaash is Aljabar.  He was a miler, he won many races, but sometimes he would boil over, and put in a tame effort.  I have mentioned on my blog before, Dubai Millenium was the best horse we had at Godolphin during my 12 years.  He had a bit of tempremant, but it did not effect his performance.  When he ran in the trial race for the Dubai World Cup at Nad Al Sheba, he got very worked up in the stable area before he was saddled, it was a bit of coltish behaviour, we took in to one of the stables and washed him down, to try and relax him, it didn’t make too much difference, then he went and broke the track record !

He was a machine, he always worked great at home, and was just as good on the racecourse.  Horses like him do not come along very often.

Hopefully I can find a horse for followers tomorrow, an each way decent priced one with a good chance.