**** **** ****. Beat the fav out of sight and gets beaten by one of my favourites. who I thought couldn't beat Battaash today. Pleased for Blue Point, always was a nice horse but I really thought Battaash had burned them all off
Hardly ever is when I pick one with him on. Don't rate him as a jockey and never have. If Buick or Dettori had been riding it might have been different
They didn't have to compete for rides with the trainer's son. Maybe the pressures of the job though - Jamie Spencer and Kieran Fallon didn't exactly progress much riding for Ballydoyle. Murtagh thrived, but I think he has a special sort of mental strength.