Wet weather welcomes European hopes

TRAINING plans were torn up yesterday as bad weather played its part in the build-up to Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup meeting.

Along with stablemate Karen’s Caper, the John Gosden-trained Leo visited Belmont’s training track as howling winds and pouring rain forced changes to everybody’s work schedule.

With the turf track closed after 15 hours of relentless rain and the main track riding decidedly sloppy, Gosden chose to use the training track which he thought to be in better condition, despite the large number of puddles dotted across its surface.