The state of the ground is the key variable with Verdana Blue. When she beat If The Cap Fits at Wincanton in November 2018 her jockey said she ‘just got away with the softer ground’ – yet the time of that race was just 0.70 of a second outside standard. Of course horses mature and develop and can often end up preferring the very conditions they once struggled on; nonetheless, on what we know now she will have to do something knew to go close on a soft surface at this level. If she was a big each way price … Continued
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