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Reflections on a major career resurgence
Nicholas Godfrey meets the trainer making headlines for the right reasons
Given her trainer's travails over the last decade, it is tempting to think Quiet Reflection is well named. Because if the demands of running a 100-plus stable at the height of summer ever allow Karl Burke any pause for thought, he might well have reason to reflect on just how far he has come since the fateful day in July 2009 when he was warned off for 12 months.
At a stroke, Burke's career was left hanging by a thread: just two weeks after he had landed his first Group 1 success with Lord Shanakill in the Prix Jean Prat, he was forced to vacate the family home at Spigot Lodge, his name blackened by association with notorious gambler Miles Rodgers.
Burke duly entered the wilderness – but he did not stay in the wilderness. Seven years later, the trainer's Middleham Moor operation is enjoying a banner year, largely thanks to the stable star's Group 1 wins at Royal Ascot and Haydock.
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