Jim Crowley: ‘Mohaafeth ticks a lot of boxes and I wouldn’t swap him for anything.’

I know Mohaafeth is a very good horse, but I still don’t know how good he might be, as he hasn’t been tested to that level so far, and that means my rivals don’t know how good he is either! I do think it’s an open race, Bolshoi Ballet deserves to be favourite after his two wins this season, and the decision of his connections to rely just on the one horse is both a good thing and a bad thing as far as I’m concerned.

It’s potentially bad news for us all as it’s a massive vote of confidence in the horse and how good they think he is, but on the plus side for the rest of us, it lessens the chances of a freak result, like we saw last year, when Serpentine went off in front and stayed there.

Although we have the trial winners from Chester, Lingfield and York, and the Irish 2000 Guineas winner, along with John Leeper, none of those really scared me when they won their races. I respect them, and I do think they give the race an open look, but I wouldn’t swap my fellow for any of them, he’s done everything right and is in a good place.

Jim rides Frontispiece in the 17:15 at Epsom

I team up with my sister-in-law Amanda Perrett here, this is a race we’ve won twice before together so it would nice to complete the hat-trick!

Frontispiece is having his first run at Epsom, but he’s an experienced type who ran well at Ascot last time, is versatile with regards to the going, and has a decent draw from stall four, so hopefully can run a nice race.

Jim rides Tinto in the 17:50 at Epsom

Tinto is another trained by Amanda, he’s got plenty of ability, which saw his rating go up into the 100s, he’s back down to 95 here and has the blinkers on, he’s got plenty of pace which you need on this quick six furlongs, so I hope we can end the meeting with a decent run.

Jim

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