'Glorious will only get better from first foreign foray'
Champion jockey Douglas Whyte believes a career-worst performance could yet be the making of Glorious Days after the potential star's all-at-sea effort in Sunday's Yasuda Kinen.
The John Size-trained four-year-old never looked comfortable during his ninth start and made no impact in his first overseas Group One race.
Whyte said an upshot of the unbalanced display could be improvement for a horse he said was not only talented, but intelligent enough to take something away from the disappointing 14th.
'We have got something to work with,' was the positive post-race spin from Whyte, adding that a lack of physical injury or over-exertion was a sign the problems were mental.
'He pulled up and I said to John 'he looks like he hasn't had a run'. He stood there and pricked his ears and he wouldn't have blown out a candle,' Whyte said.
'If he'd pulled up and there was any question that he didn't enjoy it or if he was feeling something, I would have been a bit concerned. But he certainly pulled up with no negatives.
'From that point of view he is going to digest it all and he is going to come back next year and just ping the gates and do what he is supposed to be doing. At the moment he is just raw.'