Winning trainer Mark Johnston said, "I have had him since November and last year I had a lot of horses running under the Jumeirah Racing banner. This year I have the horses running in Sheikh Mohammed's colors, which lets him take the credit, which is how it should have been in the first place. He had a few problems early on and started on the all-weather but you can see it's worked as he's a tough horse now."
Winning jockey Joe Fanning added, "Mark said not to bustle him along early and if I got to the front to let him bowl and then kick. He's very tough, this horse. I felt them come to me but every time they got to my quarters he kept finding a bit. I think he could be a St. Leger horse, he'll definitely stay further so something like that would probably be the plan."
John Gosden, trainer of runner-up Lucarno said, He ran a great race to be second but the winner's a nice horse. We might have seen the St Leger winner. It was a slow time. 2:37 and change tells us something and they were probably playing into his hands up front. There are no reasons to change anything for him and we will stick to 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 miles."
