That filly that he trained for Team Valor got her leg stuck in the paddock before the Duty Free and they scratched her. Apparently De Kock thought she could run anyway and sent her out on the track and they denied his request to let her run.
She came back and won a big one (I think the QEII) in Hong Kong a few weeks later over Ouija Board.
Irridescense is the filly's name, and she was the full sister to another runner in the race named Perfect Promise that was trained by Lee Freedman.
|