The Power SURGE King Power Racing Has Quickly Become a Powerful Force in Racing but for Those Involved Like Alastair Donald It Has at Times Been a Difficult Journey
The Big Interview King Power Racing The Power SURGE King Power Racing has quickly become a powerful force in racing but for those involved like Alastair Donald it has at times been a difficult journey Words: Carl Evans Photos: George Selwyn and Carl Evans mid the sub-plots and were running well, but we lacked a bit of background stories running luck. We had seconds and fourths, and Aobliquely through this year’s then it rained and we had soft ground Royal Ascot was one that reached a when we wanted fast ground. Then it perfect ending in the final race. dried up when our soft-ground horses Frankie Dettori had run off with the were about to run. It was becoming very show long before the Royal procession frustrating, and I remember thinking, on that Saturday afternoon, Ryan Moore ‘Please, can we have a winner – they [the was relentlessly stalking him in trademark, Srivaddhanaprabha family] so deserve it’. steely-faced determination, and Blue “When Cleonte won the final race it Point was about to land a Group 1 sprint was a huge relief. It felt way better than a double. Yet for every front-of-house Group 1 winner, and we’ve had plenty of highlight there were dozens of might- those. I was so pleased for the family, and have-beens for owners, trainers, grooms, it was hugely important for King Power racing managers and bloodstock agents. Racing.” In that category, until the fifth day’s Sitting in his Hungerford office, closing race, you could find King Power Donald comes across as a content and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha Racing, trainer Andrew Balding and agent happy man again, far removed from the (second left) and his brother Alastair Donald, a triumvirate suffering wounded figure who attended last year’s Apichet (right) celebrate with near-miss syndrome, until, finally, Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale Cleonte’s win at Royal Ascot Cleonte came good and pulled clear to just a few days after Vichai’s death.
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