Smart Call
We catch up with Alec Laird and Breeders’ Cup hopeful, Smart Call in Newmarket
We catch up with Alec Laird and Breeders’ Cup hopeful, Smart Call in Newmarket
Smart Call is likely to have a run in the UK before flying out to the USA
If it is true that when horses, or those who ride or train them, do rare things, they make the people who were present that day feel good, then Mike de Kock’s Abington Place yard in Newmarket is a centre for rare excellence.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’