Some say that Tai Sing Yeh is not the horse it once was- a very good sprinter whose favourite course was Happy Valley.
They say that age has dulled its natural speed and it should now be tried over a mile at his old stomping grounds.
Age dulls all of us when it comes to speed- but it makes us smarter.
On Wednesday, Tai Sing Yeh, the Happy Valley Sprint specialist, is back at Happy Valley and competing for the Happy Valley Trophy which it has won once before.
If it was today trained by anyone else except Richard Gibson, we’d give the horse a miss especially as John Moore has three runners in the race.
We are huge fans of Gibson and he has worked the oracle on a number of horses which might have been past it.
Last Wednesday, he could have easily trained a treble and one should always follow a trainer whose stable is in form.
Adding to Tai Sing Yeh’s win possibilities is the booking of Gerard Mosse.
Having spent so much time training some of the best horses in France, Gibson almost always calls on the French boys- Olivier Delouze and Mosse- when he knows his horses have winning chances.
Of the Moore trio, though Final Answer is there and who won at his debut at the Valley track, the runner is drawn barrier 12 and just might be caught out on a limb.
Giving us more confidence is the other Moore runner in Let Me Fight which has drawn perfectly on the rails for Jeff Lloyd with the added advantage of now coming back to handicap events.
But this is not an easy race.
Unless Glorious Days is in a race, none are.
Tony Cruz has the enigmatic Blaze King entered, there is Horse Galore carrying a featherweight and one which we’ll be keeping very safe- the John Size-trained Voile Rouge.
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