Getting right off thread topic, sorry. 

Was a great run really in those circumstances

Certainly. Wonder what’s next for him? Sydney?

Ran like a camel.
Sacked

jacko1 wrote: Did what I expected, Lasqueti probably took away his chances when she made it a tough staying test.

25 , 2400m range races, won by those contestants . Gailo Chop Nil.

He needs to mix it with Winx at 2000m sometime soon. He paid the price for leaving the comfort zone.

He's going to the Queen Elizabeth

Gee he fought on well

Tendon injury. Campaign (and possibly career) over

back in work and off to Maher/Eustace this week.

Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams ventured to Ballarat on Tuesday morning to find the best surface available for the first serious gallop for comeback Group 1 winner Gailo Chop.

While most other tracks around the state are rain affected, the rising nine-year-old took to the synthetic surface at Ballarat where he proved to Williams and his patient connections that the past 15 months of rehabilitation from a tendon injury have been worth it.

"It was his first gallop with a rider on today as all his other gallops have been on the treadmill," the trainer explained.

"So that was his first serious hit-out since his injury and he's pulled up terrific after it.

"He's walked back nice and sound. He pulled up terrific in the wind - he wouldn't have blown a candle out when he came back.

"He was very forward as far as what we can do at home before bringing him here today, he worked off over the 1000 metres and had a nice working gallop over the last 600.

"He'll get another couple of pieces of work like that with the rider on him and be ready to trial.

he multiple Group 1 winner of more than $4 million in prizemoney has not raced since the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Sydney in April last year, but the import has responded to a long, slow build-up.

"We've had him since January doing a rehab program and he was doing some rehab before he came to us, so it's been a long process but it's gone very well so far," Williams said.

"He certainly doesn't feel like an eight-year-old horse to ride. He's very good in his action still and very sparky on the trot and got a good feel about him so I think we'll still a good chance to hopefully get to that day at Moonee Valley (Cox Plate)."

Williams said Gailo Chop was now ready to step up his preparation to ready for his comeback race in the G1 Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington in September.

"He's a little bit showy condition-wise but by the time we trial at Cranbourne on the 5th of August and then again in the middle of August and then again in early September - his last two trials will be over the 1500 metres they have at Cranbourne - and I'm pretty sure we'll have him pretty forward first-up for the Makybe Diva," he said.

Another Henderson galloper? I think he's the worst of the syndicators in terms of getting every last ounce from them

If you know anything about tendons they can go at anytime and the horse already has the injury, healed with SCAR tissue, no matter which way you put it.

To those who want to denigrate the come back of BLACK HEART BART here is another on the same path.

There’s a pretty major difference.
Black heart Bart was listed as retired when in fact it was being pre trained by a disqualified person.

Gailo Chop was never listed as retired, and has been with a trainer who is not disqualified the whole 8 months of this year.

But don’t let the facts ruin a good story

Splitting hairs sky.