Medicine gets better

By Bill Knight 13/04/2008

Trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam had punters in a panic despite delivering the old 1-2 in the Doncaster Mile.

For favourite Don't Panic, a runaway winner on the track in March, had no answers when Jamie Spencer pounced on stablemate and 9-2 chance Medicine Path inside the final furlong.

Medicine Path only joined the Chapple-Hyam set-up when owner John Fretwell fell out with his private trainer Eoghan O'Neill last month.

"It was good of John to send him to me, but Medicine Path isn't a great worker at home so we thought he would need the run, but that's not how it turned out," said the trainer.

"I hate running two in the same race, but it's hard to find races for horses like these and if you take Medicine Path out, Don't Panic has probably run a career best and he would have won well.

"I still think he can win a Group race but we might keep him down a grade for the time being. Medicine Path's next target is the Sandown Mile at the end of the month."

Punters faced more misery at Kempton where Latin Lad was the money horse in the Easter Stakes, but could manage only third behind the Maktoum-owned 13-2 shot Il Warrd ridden by Martin Dwyer.

"He's improving fast and the Guineas is the obvious race for him," said trainer Marcus Tregoning.