Baker enjoys Brighton double

News of the action from Brighton’s meeting on Monday where a big week for George Baker got off to a flying start.

With potential trips to Germany and Ireland lined up at the weekend for his stable stars Belgian Bill and Boomshackerlacker, trainer George Baker was on target closer to home after landing a double at Brighton on Monday.

Having saddled a brace of winners at Les Landes in Jersey earlier this month, the Manton handler repeated that feat with a quickfire double at the Sussex seaside venue initiated by the victory of Drop Kick Murphi (9-2) in the LCS Roofing & Cladding Ltd Nursery Handicap.

Baker said: “He is just a lovely uncomplicated two-year-old. You could set your clock by him. As the owner said, he is a dude of a horse.

“It wasn’t a bad run I thought at Nottingham last time out, as I think there will be plenty that come out of it. I thought it was a decent race.

“I went through this race last night and came up with seven different winners. When you have a two-year-old as uncomplicated as he is you can keep going to war with them.

“There is a race at Lingfield on the 30th for him and that will be the obvious target for him.

On Boomshackerlacker and Belgian Bill, he added: “Boomshackerlacker and Belgian Bill are in a Group Three in Dusseldorf while Boomshackerlacker is also in the Irish Cambridgeshire at the Curragh this …

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