Champion jockey Paul Hanagan teamed up with Kevin Ryan's unbeaten Norfolk Stakes winner Bapak Chinta on the Malton gallops this week and was suitably impressed with the juvenile.
The Speightstown colt is all set to run in the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at York on August 19 and will receive a hefty weight-for-age allowance.
Hanagan has come in for the ride as Ryan's stable jockey, Phillip Makin, will be unable to do the light weight.
"I met Kevin on the Malton gallops on Thursday morning and rode the colt in a piece of work and he went really nicely," Hanagan told his www.attheraces.com blog.
"He won the Norfolk at Royal Ascot like a good horse but he is unbelievably laid-back.
"For that reason he probably just goes through the motions at home but he was still very impressive. It wasn't just his ability, it was his attitude, too."
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