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A delayed update and it will be brief. 3 runners today and time is running out in August for a winner. We’ve been on the wrong side of a few close finishes but that’s the nature of things I suppose. Dandy Belle is first for us and a repeat of her first run for us has her running well again. She’ll have to improve however as this is a deeper race. Whether she has or not is unclear given it’s only 10 days since she ran. We haven’t put any pressure on her and have trusted the race will have had a positive effect. She’s a lovely filly and time will do her no harm. 2 go in the 75 sprint handicap and T For Tango is the obvious one of ours. I’m drawing a line through his last run assuming tactics were wrong (my fault). He’s well drawn and Rory’s 10lbs will be no harm. He doesn’t give the impression he’s roaring back to the horse he was. Hopefully he can get back on track to gradually getting there. Art World is interesting, he’s about 50lbs wrong at the weights and it was not my expectation that he would run for us. I undertook to train him for a short period of time and send him home if he was showing at home what he has been showing on the track recently. Here we are, his exercise is good and for a horse that has been in the wilderness he’s entitled to a run and have a look/see. The priority is to get his mark up and then we can plan for him. As things stand he can’t get in anywhere so today will dictate whether we persist with him or not. I’d be astonished if he didn’t take a step back towards being a horse that’s entitled to be in training. We’ll see.