Best Solution Ends Saeed Bin Suroor’s Nine Month Winless Drought
Saeed bin Suroor's Best Solution showed battling qualities to land the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes, despite a 103-day absence from the track. The same horse won at Newbury nine months ago. It has been a quiet European season so far for the four-times British champion.
Bin Suroor’s complaint last summer was that he had been sent a hopeless bunch of youngsters, leaving unspoken the suggestion that all Godolphin’s talented juveniles had gone to their other Newmarket trainer, Charlie Appleby. It seems the comment had some substance, as those young 3YO are now a showcase for the world with Masar at the helm. Masar won the Derby for Appleby.
Meanwhile Bin Suroor has been, in his words, "we are rebuilding the stable now. It will take two or three years.”
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