16th August 2013, 04:35 PM
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Yes, I think looking at videos of Willie, he can make up a tremendous amount of ground due to his stride, but he's pretty green in running, e's at Rosehill and he runs to his stable in the straight there. That would be my major concern tomorrow.
Altius can win Saturday, but he's not consistent enough.
Because of his stride he can't sustain speed because he expends too much energy. He has talent, but is lower grade talent. I doubt he'll ever win more than one black type race. If eerything goes his way and he gets a split at the right time, he'll poke his nose through, but he doesn't have a good stride at all.
He also had throat surgery and has recovered from that to get his breathing right, but I think they need to improve his stride.
Mostly they have it or they don't, but one can improve it a bit with patient training.
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