Richards Reflects On Garden Reverse

Monet's Garden is unlikely to run over two miles again after his Tingle Creek defeat.

Trainer Nicky Richards was satisfied with the nine-year-old's third-placed finish but thinks he is ideally suited by a stiffer test of stamina these days.

Richards said: 'He was staying on up the hill but he was never going to catch the front two.

'We gave it a go and nothing ventured, nothing gained.

'He seems fine now, we'll take it easy for a few days and see how things are.

'We are not thinking about any particular races at the moment ? we'll just get a few days out of the way and then we'll see.

'He probably won't run at two miles again, the level he is at now.

'I think it proved that his best trip may be two and a half, two miles six, or even three miles on a flat track.

'I wouldn't have thought we'd run him over two again,' Richards told At The Races.

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