William Haggas’s colt duly opened proceedings with racing’s equivalent of an exhibition game winning the Queen Anne Stakes in not much more than an exercise gallop. Hansen might nevertheless still have been able to win on Baaeed, the world’s highest-rated horse. But once you get hooked on racing you can’t get off it.” Racing’s different, your players can let you know how they feel but horses can’t talk back. I wanted to be a jockey but outgrew that idea, then I wanted to be a trainer but became a rugby coach. “I grew up on a farm, my father owned and trained. “He keeps turning up and gets better with age. “It’s a privilege to be part of the group,” he said.
One of Nature Strip’s owners is Steve Hansen, who coached the All Blacks to win the Rugby World Cup. We’ve been talking about Ascot for a year so it’s a huge result.” Winning jockey James McDonald said: “I didn’t think anything could get near him so I got a scare when I heard a horse coming for me 50 yards out but he had no rider! He was just idling along. Ratings stack up and he is one of the highest-rated horses in the world, but until you do it on the main stage it’s another story.” “To therefore bring a horse here and not only run, but win, is very special. “It means a lot,” he said.”We don't get the opportunity very often to come here and take on the English, Irish, French, Americans and even Dubai and Hong Kong runners. Nature Strip destroys the impressive Group 1 field to win the King's Stand Stakes - PAīringing a horse halfway round the world, his winter to our summer, should not be underestimated and it is a huge feather in the cap of his Sydney-based New Zealand born trainer Chris Waller.
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It had been billed as a match with the American favourite Golden Pal but, for the third time on a British course, he failed to deliver this time uncharacteristically missing the start, a rude awakening to Royal Ascot for Irad Ortiz, the crack American jockey, done before he had gone a stride.īut the massive Nature Strip cruised through the race, never appeared to come out of third gear and had it so easy a quick return in the Platinum Jubilee on Saturday has not been ruled out. Horses do not generally win Group One five furlong sprints by four and half lengths but, with only a loose horse for company, he made the current crop of British sprinters look like trees planted for the Queen’s Green Canopy project.Nothing could lay even a lace glove, this being Ascot, on him. It is 10 years since the last Australian winner, the unbeaten mare Black Caviar, left an indelible mark on Royal Ascot but, after a decade-long hiatus of lesser horses and a two-year lockdown, Australia was back at Ascot on Tuesday, when their latest truly world-class sprinter Nature Strip ran away with the King’s Stand Stakes and title ‘world’s fastest’.
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