At some time in their lives almost every trainer will have days where they feel the racing gods are against them, but there are also those days where they cannot deny that everything comes together for them in a way that they could not have scripted any better themselves.
Trainer Paul Butterworth would be able to vouch for that.
The first race at Ipswich today originally only had six acceptances … with that number being an even split between trainers Butterworth, Paul Nolan (Jnr) and Chris Anderson who had two runners apiece.
That was before Anderson scratched both his runners and Nolan scratched one of his two runners … moves which left Butterworth with a more than useful numerical advantage with two horses going to the start in what was now a three-horse field.
Both Butterworth runners … Songzilla and Whistling Loren … also had a race experience advantage over the stable’s one remaining rival, the Paul Nolan (Jnr) runner Because The Night who was on debut.
That left the possibility that Because The Night might be a surprise package, but Butterworth need not have worried at all as the rider of Because The Night lost her irons during the running which meant the Nolan runner could not be competitive in any way in the home straight.
No stress for Butterworth then as it became a race in two between his two stable runners with Songzilla, the better fancied of the two, duly getting home as the market suggested he would.
A win for a stable … with such a clear, untroubled path opening up for victory … doesn’t come in much easier circumstances than this!
