“If someone doesn’t show the interest or the respect once you’ve given them instructions – I spoke to Blake earlier in the morning and told him what I’d like him to do and was standing there holding the colours and no one arrived.
“Thank goodness my apprentice [Jerry Chau Chun-lok] was on hand or we would have had the horse scratched.
“When you put all the time and effort in to try and get a horse into a race like this and you get let down like that, it’s very disappointing.”