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<\/p>\n\u201cTwo weeks here, two weeks there, that\u2019s never simple, but lots of horses have done it and lots have travelled further. He got to Hong Kong by plane, and had travelled backwards and forwards from China regularly, so he\u2019s a good traveller.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes, meanwhile, was a keen observer when the Chris Waller-trained Joliestar dominated the Shorts (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday. She firmed into a $7 for The Everest, just behind stablemate and second elect Lady Shenandoah ($6). Shorts runner-up Briasa was $8 and Private Harry, which faded in fifth, dropped to $10. Lady Shenandoah next races in the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Joliestar romps home in the Shorts on Saturday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cShe couldn\u2019t have been more impressive; she looked outstanding,\u201d Hayes said of Joliestar. \u201cShe put her hand up and probably Private Harry put his hand down. I\u2019d say he\u2019s got a little bit of work to do. I\u2019d say the Hawkes\u2019 horse [Briasa] is on schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes will be keenly watching the Manikato Stakes, but also for the return of Stradbroke Handicap winner War Machine, which is trained by his sons, Ben, Will and JD, and has yet to gain an Everest slot.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019s a very good horse and will be having one lead-up in the next couple of weeks. Stradbroke form is a proven way of coming in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, jockey Ash Morgan has vowed to \u201cregroup and go again\u201d after racing powerhouse Yulong made the call to dump him from Private Harry, which is set to race next in the Premiere Stakes on October 4 at Randwick.<\/p>\n
Morgan was aboard the Nathan Doyle-trained star for five wins to start his career, which included a first group 1 victory. Private Harry, which slot-holder Yulong owns 50 per cent of after a multimillion-dollar deal, began awkwardly on Saturday and was bumped early before working into second spot then fading late as favourite.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously [it hurts], but it is what it is, there\u2019s nothing I can do about it,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cThe decision was made, but I\u2019ve had a good run on the horse and I feel I\u2019ve done everything I can on him and executed in the big moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horse has been great to me, and he put my name out there. There\u2019s no hard feelings between me and anybody else. I\u2019ve been in it long enough to know how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim Clark has been booked to ride Private Harry in the Premiere Stakes and the Everest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo weeks here, two weeks there, that\u2019s never simple, but lots of horses have done it and lots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}