William Badlan: Not holding out much hope *H&H VIP*

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With this cold snap, it’s been great having the all-weather surface at Wolverhampton racecourse to gallop the horses. It gives a good indication of how they are coping with the increase in work.

Last week, we took Grand Fella for the first time with John The Glass and one of trainer Sue Taylor’s horses. Mum [Jane Badlan] rode him first, but he was really strong, so I took him round on his own afterwards, and he did a nice piece of work.

We’ve upped the height of the fences at home and I’ve been allowed to school everything in the yard at Sue’s, which is great practice. Learning to sit and wait for the fence rather than attack it is important. The horse needs to think for himself rather than the jockey doing it all for him. The theory is that if the horse doesn’t meet a fence in a race quite right, he will be able to sort himself out.

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