BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL

Nick Townsend previews the Bahrain International Trophy

Charlie Hills reflects on another bountiful season dominated by the feats of the country’s leading sprinter Bataash, now happily wintering at Sheik Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell Stud after two Group 1 and a Group 2 triumphs in a truncated season. But could there be yet another big-race triumph for the Lambourn trainer this month in his improving four-year-old Pogo in the £500,000 Bahrain International Trophy at Sakhir on Friday, November 20?
The son of Zebedee will have to measure up...