No excuses needed for Baaeed as errant German filly threatens to muck up Moulin

It doesn't take much to muck up a horse race and the expected pacemaker blowing the start would be high on the list of things that can do it. Novemba, who seems to be all fizz and fire, anticipated the stalls opening for the Prix du Moulin, bounced her face off them and was going backwards when they actually did open a moment later.

She then did two little rears, as if auditioning for the part of Champion The Wonder Horse, before finally consenting to race. About a furlong later, perhaps imagining herself to be tearing down the side of a canyon in Colorado, she was in front.

Was there a cost to Baaeed? He certainly looked a bit free as he and the others pottered along, waiting for Novemba to show up, and the experience of then having a mad German filly zooming past on his outside did not seem to calm him down.