THE Grade 1 AP Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga was won recently by Rosbrian Farm’s Swansea Mile, an Irish-bred seven-year-old son of Dylan Thomas. The owners collected $90,000 for the victory, while winning trainer Richard Hendriks, whose last Grade 1 victory at Saratoga came in the New York Turf Writers Handicap in 2004, is hoping to repeat the dose again soon at the famous track.

He said: “We’ll have to come back for the [Grade 1] Turf Writers [August 24], yes. It’s very hard to win a Grade 1 over jumps; we only have about five or six races. Hopefully we’ll keep him in one piece and we’ll be back in about a month.”