Tipperary star Greg Broderick warms to task at Thermal’s $1m AIG Grand Prix

Greg Broderick hopes to raise the temperature on Sunday in Thermal, California, where there will be a cool $1m (€940,000) on offer in the AIG Grand Prix.

He also has a hot commodity in MHS Going Global, the nine-year-old he steered to victory in the $50,000 (€47,000) Horseware Ireland Grand Prix last Sunday week.

Understandable, then, that he is confident, but the Tipperary rider did not hesitate to pour a little cold water on any hype, noting the quality of the field at the HITS (Horse Shows in the Sun) Desert Circuit, including the likes of Rich Fellers and Flexible — the Cruising-sired gelding bred by Edward Doyle — who shows no sign of diminishing, at the age of 19.