Travel woe for Workforce

CONNECTIONS of Derby and Arc winner Workforce expressed dissatisfaction at delays in his passage between the UK and the US.

Sir Michael Stoute’s colt, a red-hot favourite for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, took 18 hours to reach his stable in the quarantine barn at Churchill Downs – with only eight hours spent actually in the air.

Stoute’s travelling head groom Stuart Messenger stressed that Workforce had taken the exertions well, but said “a lesson would have to be learned” from the journey which ended at 10pm on Saturday night.