Horse & Hound

Battaash

TRAINER CHARLIE HILLS

“AS a two-year-old, Battaash had bags of energy and was quite boisterous. He’d shown at home that he was very fast, but it was more about settling him at the races because he just had so much built-up adrenaline.

“We then decided to geld him because we knew that he had the ability,

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