As reigning champion trainer John Size begins his customary mid-season acceleration through to the lead in the championship, the standout difference to his approach has been a greater patronisation of Happy Valley meetings. Happy Valley is hardly the ideal course for Size's style, with his horses trained to relax rather than bustle in the early part of their races, but he seems to have bitten the bullet on the proportion of races which are run at the track. Though Size did manage to win 12 races
As reigning champion trainer John Size begins his customary mid-season acceleration through to the lead in the championship, the standout difference to his approach has been a greater patronisation of Happy Valley meetings. Happy Valley is hardly the ideal course for Size's style, with his horses trained to relax rather than bustle in the early part of their races, but he seems to have bitten the bullet on the proportion of races which are run at the track. Though Size did manage to win 12 races there two seasons ago, his results either side of that saw only 17 wins in three full seasons.
With 13 of 36 Valley meetings for the season completed, Size has already sent out 46 runners for six winners there, and plugging that gap in his resume is surely going to make him even tougher to beat.
With most of his unraced stock still to come and Size sitting only seven winners off leader John Moore in the table, the Australian is lining up for his seventh championship in 10 years with a certain amount of inevitability.
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