Some were critical of Charles Dickens being taken down the inside, where it is surmised he would have faced the brunt of the prevailing south-easterly wind.
However, Bass-Robinson said, “The race worked out well for Bernard Fayd’Herbe, but how would we have got to the outside because Al Muthana was always in front of us? I think even if we had managed to pull him off the fence we still would probably not have caught the winner.”
She went on to lament the recent happenings in which jockeys had been cramming on to certain portions of ground in the straight.
She said, “It is a nightmare. They are going to the inside, the outside, all over the place. It makes for unpleasant racing.”
