Barrier Blanket for Distinctly Secret
- Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:00
The four-year-old wore one last season but his trainer Mark Walker dispensed with it when he resumed at last month's Taupo trials and when he ran at Hastings two weeks ago.
"He was good as gold in the gates at the trials, but I regretted not having one on him at Hastings," said Walker. "He got up to his old trick of laying on the side of his stall and made a bad start."
Walker wants none of that at the 2040 metre barrier in Saturday's $500,000 race and has notified Hawke's Bay Racing chief executive John McGifford that he will require a blanket.
"I'll get back to them before the horse travels south tomorrow and send one down with him if necessary," said Walker, obviously mindful of the situation when only one blanket was available at Awapuni three weeks ago.
On that occasion there was no blanket available for Millennium and he had to be late scratched after injuring himself in the starting gates.
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