British horse racing eager for another Triple Crown contender
British horse racing stayed deprived of a Triple Crown contender for good forty-two years, and when the hopes had reached their highest this year, they were dropped down, and the wait for another three to four decades continues for the horse racing fans.
The expectations of all those passionate about the sport that the Aidan O’Brien trained, Camelot, will win the glorious title so firmly cemented that the provision of another possible entry winning the St Leger was the last thing on their minds.
The excitement that would have surged after the success was almost at par with the level of disappointment that the spectators worldwide and the connections suffered after the prospect flew away with the dust flying under the hooves of the winner, Encke,
under the Godolphin rider, Mickael Barzalona.
O'Brien, whose son Joseph was on board Camelot, said: "It wasn't what we thought it was going to be. It was a steadily-run race and Joseph said he was a little bit fresh with him, but that was probably always going to happen in a slowly-run race.
"You have to take your time on him over a mile and six which he (Joseph) did and when he got out he just stayed on rather than quickened.
"In the Guineas he quickened and in the Derby he quickened, but he just stayed on here.”
The way the race and the outcome unfolded, it made many to believe that the major flaw was with the horse, and not the team that supported him. The father and son pair is famous for the honours that they have brought back to the stable time and again.
The claim that Camelot just was not the same horse who won the Guineas 2000 and the Epsom Derby, is contradictory.
Maybe the expectations were just too high, he went to the final leg of the Triple Crown unbeaten, the toll of expectations might just have been too demanding for the colt.
The effort of the trainer that winning the Arc will restore the dignity of his under charge, took an altogether different route which bruised his profile further. Calling it a day for the trainee might have saved him from ruining the image that was not easy
to build in the first place.
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