Raw Glorious Days is 'the real deal'

Douglas Whyte is calling him the real deal, even his conservative trainer John Size has stamped him a good horse and the toughest problem with Glorious Days right now is trying to make a call on where his limits might lie.

Glorious Days (Whyte) had another stroll in the park to win the Midland Holdings Cup (1,400m) and all eyes now turn to where the four-year-old will start to dip his hoof into Group racing.

The son of Hussonet rounded out a treble for Whyte, who had earlier scored with Mentor for Size and Go Baby Go for Dennis Yip Chor-hong, and the Durban Demon has only high praise for Glorious Days.

'He's the real deal. There's a lot of rawness about him but what he is doing, he doing effortlessly and with real enthusiasm for his job,' he said.

'He is a really exciting horse and I love riding these sorts of horses for John. Every time they come back to the race, they lift a little more and they just keep doing it.'

For the third time in as many starts, and after being hoisted sharply in the ratings for both of his first two wins, Glorious Days ambled around the Sha Tin 1,400m course in cruise control, dropped any pretenders at the 200m and moseyed on down to the post like he was headed to the water hole.

As yet, nothing has been good enough to beat him or even get him, his trainer or his rider anxious. 'It doesn't look like we've seen the bottom of him yet, there looks more there,' said Size.