Not even two months ago, Deauville-based Stephane Wattel joined the training ranks of the Qatari outfit Al Wathnan Racing when they bought three-year-old colt Best Secret after his impressive victory in the Prix du Port au Fouin - a 1m 2f handicap at ParisLongchamp. On his first start for his new owners, the colt finished third in the Golden Gates Stakes at Royal Ascot, and this Thursday he is coming back to the UK for the Coral Kincsem Handicap at Goodwood.
"I’m delighted to come back to Goodwood," said Wattel. "I have never had a runner there but, bizarrely, I know the track well, as I used to go over to buy two-year-olds in its claiming races."
As a Deauville racecourse-based trainer, he is only too aware of the importance of the summer meeting that starts this Sunday and concludes four weeks later. Here, he kindly talked to Liz Price about his Goodwood runner as well as a selection of horses he expects to run well during the Deauville meeting.