'I'm really looking forward to getting her over a fence - she's in good order'
Racing writer of the year David Carr talks to the multiple Grade 1 winner
It has been yet another record-breaking Flat season for Alan King, who smashed his personal best tally with over £1 million in prize-money.
Trueshan gave him his first Group 1 win in the Goodwood Cup and added a second in the Prix du Cadran, while Asymmetric's Richmond Stakes success was his best juvenile triumph.
Yet the trainer's roots are firmly in jumping and he might have helped hold the fort against the Irish invaders at Cheltenham last March had Sceau Royal not been almost knocked over when a decidedly unlucky fifth in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
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