Sir Erec makes winning transition to hurdling

He was obviously a decent horse on the Flat and he jumped well. His jumping will come on a nice bit for that. I was a bit nervous before the race because there was a really strong word for the second. I'm delighted to see him do that and he was tough from the back of the last when he had to be. Every horse in the race would have done loads of jumping but there were four or five fallers. You can only do as much as you can at home and then they have to go and run. He had always schooled nicely so it's nice to see him go and win. The ground has been so good for so long that maybe a lot of horses didn't do as much schooling as they would have other years. He'll probably come back here next as that makes sense. He stays well and he'll have to come on from that.

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