Quote:
Hanger was beaten by a bare nose by Power O'Hata in the Breeders Stakes but would have won clearly had Leith Innes been able to extract him from behind horses earlier in the home straight.
The lengths of Hanger's last two strides to almost get the win were remarkable.
"And if you roll the vision on a further 300m, he's 20 lengths clear of the others," said trainer Roger James. A wonderful sign.
Comment:
How far ahead of the others Hanger was 300m past the post is meaningless - were the other horses being pulled up or had already done so? (I'd certainly hope so, the race was over!)
Clearly a good horse in the making, but perhaps someone cn explain what Roger James meant by that remark ...