Like most things in life, new partnerships take time to bed down.
Someone forgot to tell Victoria trainer Robbie Griffiths and his new side-kick Mathew De Kock that they were meant to start as a ripple and end as a wave.
According to AAP, the Cranbourne team is running at a 25% winning strike rate from its first 28 runners.
Mathew de Kock, on the balcony at Robbie Griffiths’ stable in Cranbourne
Among the seven winners were two at Sandown last Wednesday (underpinned by two runners-up), and the stable has elected to back up with another quartet of entries at the venue today.
A buoyed Griffiths rhapsodized:
“I thought we would bide our time. I told Mathew to be prepared for a light spring and that we would attack the summer racing with gusto…”
Griffiths observed:” “He is bringing so much to the table. The youth I can see in him, his excitement, his enthusiasm, we are all feeding off it plus his knowledge is extraordinary… he’s experienced, he’s travelled the globe working for his father (champion trainer Mike De Kock) and he’s also worked for Baffert (in the US) and O’Brien (in Ireland).”
