The blue-blooded European gallopers heading to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups might have endured a nightmare trip because of their plane delay in the Middle East, but for their Japanese counterparts there was an equally alarming issue to deal with – the typhoon that hit south east Asia just before they were due to fly to Australia.
Representatives of Team Kubota – the father (Yoshiro) and son (Yashushi) combination which own the two Japanese Cups contenders Sole Impact and Chestnut Coat – arrived at the quarantine centre at Werribee on Wednesday and revealed that they were lucky to beat the adverse weather conditions and get to Australia as planned.
”It made a lot of trouble. The JRA cancelled racing two days in a row. I shouldn’t say anything about it, but it made for fortune for us travelling. I don’t want to say much because many people died,” said Hirofumi Toda, Sole Impact’s trainer, as he told how the ravaging impacts of Typhoon Trami almost disrupted their travel arrangements.
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