Three rides may not look like much, especially for a top gun, but Vlad Duric still elected to defer his one-day suspension to next week. Quantity has been a rare commodity to the Australian heavyweight jockey in 2023, but his wizardry in the saddle remains. In 21 rides, he...
That day, trapped three deep in midfield under new South African jockey Calvin Habib, the seven-year-old was a spent force upon straightening. He beat one home, 12 lengths off Steven Burridge’s exciting prospect, Street Of Dreams.
Not many jockeys would be beating a path to trainer Ricardo Le Grange’s door after such a deflating run, but Duric put his hand up. The bond he had forged with Hongkong Great in trackwork probably fuelled the bias. “Ricky and I share the same opinion that he’s a horse who must either lead or sit outside the lead, but not go back.“He needs to be in control on the speed. We have to let him bowl along with his big strides.”
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