The American trainer believes Create A Dream is first-rate enough to pay for the trip across the Atlantic and return for one of Royal Ascot’s prestigious races in JuneFlat racing on turf in Britain has a terribly low-key start to the season but that does not seem to have put off Wesley Ward,who has travelled thousands of miles to brighten up what would otherwise be a rather drab Saturday with a couple of his two-year-old rockets. At a time of year when some trainers in this country are just starting to think approximately getting the paunchy off their handicappers, Ward is so alert to secure going that the whole of the US cannot provide enough opportunities.“My horses are doing first-rate, or really first-rate,” the 48-year-old said this week, “and in the States there’s no turf racing at all just now. It used to be that I could hurry my first horses on the Polytrack at Keeneland but then they took that away, or so you’re forced to hurry on dirt.
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Source: theguardian.com