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I agree. The horse is a bit of a cuss as we know, but in fairness he must be quite confused after being asked to make it in the Guineas and today being wrestled back through the field. Small wonder it took him time to settle. I wasn’t as impressed as many appear to be with the way Manning insisted on fighting with him early on and then riding him into the backs of horses later and diving across runners to get room on the rail. Nevertheless, it worked. Somehow the pair made room to use NA’s class. New Approach was climbing all over them and it would have been a travesty had he lost. He is much better than this half a length win would suggest. There is no doubt middle distance is where he should be. Bolger now has time to work on getting the colt to settle in his races and Willie Carson may well be right in saying that the race will have taught him not to be quite so willful.

<blockquote data-quote="SteveM" data-source="post: 2143967" data-attributes="member: 64943"><p>I agree. The horse is a bit of a cuss as we know, but in fairness he must be quite confused after being asked to make it in the Guineas and today being wrestled back through the field. Small wonder it took him time to settle. I wasn’t as impressed as many appear to be with the way Manning insisted on fighting with him early on and then riding him into the backs of horses later and diving across runners to get room on the rail. Nevertheless, it worked. Somehow the pair made room to use NA’s class. New Approach was climbing all over them and it would have been a travesty had he lost. He is much better than this half a length win would suggest. There is no doubt middle distance is where he should be. Bolger now has time to work on getting the colt to settle in his races and Willie Carson may well be right in saying that the race will have taught him not to be quite so willful.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="SteveM, post: 2143967, member: 64943"] I agree. The horse is a bit of a cuss as we know, but in fairness he must be quite confused after being asked to make it in the Guineas and today being wrestled back through the field. Small wonder it took him time to settle. I wasn’t as impressed as many appear to be with the way Manning insisted on fighting with him early on and then riding him into the backs of horses later and diving across runners to get room on the rail. Nevertheless, it worked. Somehow the pair made room to use NA’s class. New Approach was climbing all over them and it would have been a travesty had he lost. He is much better than this half a length win would suggest. There is no doubt middle distance is where he should be. Bolger now has time to work on getting the colt to settle in his races and Willie Carson may well be right in saying that the race will have taught him not to be quite so willful. [/QUOTE]

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