00:01Trainer John Ennis is looking forward to opening weekend of Keeneland where he'll
00:05send the aptly named Great White to the Grade 1 Bluegrass. We spoke with John
00:10after Great White shipped in from the Thoroughbred Training Center on
00:13Wednesday to school ahead of his Grade 1 debut. He looks great, school fantastic,
00:18he's a good minded horse anyway but it's just more so bringing him over here to
00:21see the paddock and just just have a look at the place basically yes he's not
00:26a horse that gets worked up or annoyed easily so more so just come over here
00:30see the place, put the saddle on and ready for Saturday. I seen him on a
00:35digital sale and I was lucky enough that three champions wanted to partner up with
00:40me and you know lucky for me that I'm involved with a horse of this quality.
00:46He's massive, a lot of presence about him and as you see him here this morning his
00:50demeanour is fantastic so I don't think nothing's gonna work him up too much.
00:5617, two and a half, he's actually weighs a ton as well so he's just a big boy, a big
01:03kind old boys. His first race he was super weak and immature, raw sort of a horse, didn't
01:10expect him to win first time out and he did going six. He came back in the stake,
01:14Leonata stake, a turf way and ran a good fifth kind of and then obviously the
01:21the battaglia I thought was good and the thought was kind of frank by full effort
01:26winning the battaglia so well so you know we're into deeper waters now but he's been
01:32training great and training great over the surface also. We kind of just have to
01:36play the break really there's a lot of speed in here and see where he lands and
01:40jumps hopefully be close and some similar to the battaglia if he'd be close and just
01:45behind him that'd be fantastic. To be running the bluegrass is an honour, to be in
01:50consideration for more derby points is great so look one step at a time and see
01:56how we get on Saturday and we go from there.
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