'He behaved appallingly and tried to kill Paul Hanagan in the stalls'

At Royal Ascot as a two-year-old his behaviour was probably the worst I’ve ever had to deal with from a horse on the track. He behaved appallingly and tried to kill Paul Hanagan in the stalls.
Charlie Hills on his enigmatic stable star Battaash ahead of his Nunthorpe assignment
He comes in early and mucks out stables and would have no problem painting a fence or anything like that
Enda Bolger on the likeable attitude of red-hot riding sensation Darragh O’Keeffe
She has a bleed in the head, a few bleeds I think, so they have to let her sleep and wake her up in a few days’ time. It’s very difficult being positive because the words out of the hospital are not great.
An emotional Willam Bethell, speaking on Sky Sports Racing, revealing that his daughter Harriet, 33, had been placed in an induced coma in hospital after a fall on the gallops left her with serious head injuries
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