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Desert Diary: Crawford switches campaigns for Keen Ice

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Desert Diary

 By Graham Dench in Dubai 12:07pM 24 MAR 2016 

THERE are all sorts of people in Dubai with World Cup night runners, but among the most surprising has to be Jerry Crawford, who is here with Keen Ice.

Dale Romans’ colt, you might remember, achieved fame, or perhaps notoriety, throughout the racing world when he picked up the pieces and beat Triple Crown hero American Pharoah at the end of a gruelling Travers Stakes at Saratoga last August.

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Crawford’s fame – his opponents might say notoriety – is in the political arena, for he is a campaign advisor to Hillary Clinton, no less.

You might think he had more important things to do right now than travel halfway across the world for a two-minute horse race, but ‘Secretary Clinton’, as Crawford refers to her, is evidently an understanding boss, even if she has told him that he “should concentrate more on his two-legged racers than his four-legged racers.”

Heathcote on tour

Australian Robert Heathcote, whose Buffering is challenging Sole Power and co for the Al Quoz Sprint, spent many years in England before starting training.

A tip-off that Heathcote once used to take coach parties across Europe in addition to working on the rails at Ascot proved to be not entirely accurate, but it was a good lead and there was an element of truth in both strands of information.

Heathcote explained: “I lived in England from 1982 and worked as a tour manager for a travel company for 13 years, then during the off season I would often work with my brother Wayne, who was the financial backer of a number of rails bookmakers and was trying to create what you might describe as an early version of Betfair.

“Wayne was quite visionary and bought the Ebor winner Quick Ransom and took him out for the Melbourne Cup long before jumbo jet loads of horses were flying out there. He had horses with a few different trainers when I went back to Australia and I suggested he consolidate them.

“I was at a crossroads in life and my wife suggested I trained them, even though at that time I didn’t know which end the food went in and the s**t came out. It was a rapid learning curve and I made a lot of mistakes, but I learned from them and here we are.”

He added: “Buffering is known as ‘The Little Bulldog’, because he loves a stoush [scrap]. He’s the last horse still racing with links to Black Caviar. You didn’t see the best of her at Royal Ascot, but at home she was so exceptional that we would finish second or third and it would feel as if we had won.”

Fans of all ages

Seven-year-old Serene Haddh must be the youngest “Chromie” at Meydan, where she was proudly showing off her head collar from the World Cup star at the Breakfast With The Stars Media Event on Thursday morning.

The youngster from Virginia was being escorted around by her friend Christian Khury, who now lives in Dubai. He said: “We bought the halter online last October when it was put up for sale on a site alongside one from American Pharoah. The bidding for the Pharoah one went through the roof but we managed to get the California Chrome one for not much money. We are hoping it will be worth a lot more after Saturday.”

Jeremy Noseda

Jeremy Noseda: enjoying the nightlife

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

Party animal

With the sun coming up in a cloudless sky and temperatures pushing 26C, dark glasses were the order of the day at Breakfast With The Stars and more so for some. Trainer Jeremy Noseda was out on the track supervising Sloane Avenue’s work ahead of the Group 2 Godolphin Mile after minimum sleep.

Evidently, the Newmarket trainer had been at a themed 80’s, 90’s and noughties party where there was a sprinkling of celebrities. He said: “I was twerking with Abbey Clancy at one stage, as I remember.”

Pedal power

Roger Varian adopted an unusual mode of transport to cross the vast Meydan complex prior to attending a formal press conference in the media centre.

Range Rovers, mini buses and golf buggies are the usual means of negotiating distances too great to be comfortably undertaken on foot, but on what was fast developing into a more typical hot and sweaty Meydan morning than earlier in the week Varian arrived from the training track to meet the press by mountain bike.

 

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