He needs to be driven hard, says Irish trainer
Irish training wizard Aidan O'Brien has admitted playing 'catch-up' with Dylan Thomas in the lead-up to tomorrow's HK$14 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase, but believes the European Horse of the Year will still come through.
O'Brien (pictured), 38, has been working the robust Dylan Thomas every morning over the past week and was at it again yesterday.
Dylan Thomas is a son of Danehill, and like so many of the progeny of that wonderful sire he has a seemingly bottomless constitution. O'Brien, knowing that fact, has been brave enough to push the boundaries.
'He might have gotten away from us a bit, with the travel and the quarantine, so since we've got here I admit we've had to keep chasing him along,' O'Brien said.
'But for all of it, he seems to be in pretty good shape.'