Okay, tell me how you're feeling about today.

Yeah, no, he's in great form, travelled over very well.

I mean, he's got a great mind, so I never for a moment thought that the travel would be an issue.

He arrived at York on Tuesday evening, had a hack on the track yesterday, so...

No. We're here and, you know, I think judging on so far, you know, races spent course wise, the lower numbers seem to be favouring.

Hopefully it stays that way because that's where we are.

And yeah, you know, he's very straightforward.

how is Takaido going to cope with the rain we got a little we got 2.8 overnight to go with the five and a half we got yesterday it's going to be riding slow

Um, so do you own this? Do you rent this? Do you live on site? Do you live locally? Tell us all about it.

Yeah, so I live on site.

I live in an apartment above the yard.

Um, so we, I rent the yard from Miriam Bulac-Badal, who is obviously an incredibly successful trainer herself.

And her, her son is, um, a, a very successful jockey in Hong Kong, Alexi Badel.

Um, so, uh, yeah, very fortunate that she wa... obviously she had retired.

I, when I had a satellite yard three years ago, France Galop put me in contact with her because she had some spare boxes.

Yeah, yeah.