Winning Horse: Giga Kick (Aus)
Winning Trainer: Clayton Douglas
On the horse and his preparatio leading into today: “What a horse. Six weeks between runs, he was probably feeling it late in that contest but it was a great effort.”
On his physical development: “Unbelievable. Like Jayne (Ivil) said in the yard, he’s just a completely different horse now. He’s done so well and I think he’s got nice improvement to come. He’s still big enough and still got plenty in the tank.
“He’s done really well, we’ll just see how he pulls up, but I’m really happy with how he is and it was good to get the job done today.
On what impressed him the most out of the performance: “He was probably asked to go early and it was a good run, in a good solid-run race – I think they were only half-a-second outside the class record – so he’s a good horse this.
“He’s only going to be better in the autumn but we’ve got a serious horse for the spring anyway.”
Winning Jockey: Craig Williams
On Clayton Douglas: “Full credit goes to his trainer. He’s a great young man as a person in general but what a great horseman with an amazing story in racing.
“He had to go through being heavy (jockey), go through the picnics program to being a jumping jockey to being a really competitive flat jockey to now being one of our top trainers.
“To train this horse to race to still remain undefeated and you can with his continuation and the pre-parade report to say how much he’s come on and my job is pretty easy actually.
“The colt that we beat is a very good colt too.”
On what he learnt today: “There’s a lot that I will learn out of today with this horse the way that he is developing.
“Apart from being undefeated, to win this prestigious race, the Danehill, leading into the Coolmore he’s a really exciting horse.”
