Back with a bang and raring to go
And if the final race of the day at a recent Great Leighs meeting had not been cancelled because of fog, it would have been a full house of four wins.
Luke, who trains from Copped Hall Farm, between Billingshurst and Five Oaks, ended a lean spell of five months without a winner when American Spin spreadeagled the field and came home in style in the William Hill Auction Maiden Stakes at Kempton early this month.
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Hide AdThe five-year-old had not raced since October 2006 when he finished third at Newmarket on his racing debut as a juvenile, then trained by Brian Meehan.
"He was injured after that race, doing a tendon, and then did the other leg. He went to another trainer who couldn't get him fit enough to go back on the track. He came to me last April and I have had to take things gently with him," said Luke.
He has a fine reputation for getting injured horses back on the track and educating quirky horses '“ and patience paid off with American Spin, who romped home at 7-2 and has come out of the race sound.
For full feature about this in-form trainer, and the chance to buy a share in winning horses, see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette, January 28