Epsom general manager Stephen Wallis today admitted it will 'take an exceptional effort' to break a world speed record and land a Stg#100,000
bonus at the track`s Bank Holiday meeting.
Rain has slightly slowed the going at the course, where 19 sprinters will attempt to earn the pay-out by breaking a 40-year-old mark of 53.6
seconds for five furlongs tomorrow.
The ground is officially good ahead of an assault on Indigenous` time in the Tote Exacta Sprint Stakes.
But Wallis stressed: 'We didn`t have the rain yesterday that they had at Lord`s or at Newmarket.
'And with 19 runners - the biggest field for five furlongs we have had for a long time - it will certainly be a cavalry charge.
'It will take an exceptional effort but it is not impossible. And we have paid the insurance premium so we want to pay out!'
Indigenous set the current, hand-timed best in June, 1960.
'To the best of our knowledge it is a world record,' Wallis added. 'Nobody has ever questioned it.'
Speedy front-runner Repertory tops the weights for tomorrow`s handicap, in which habitual pace-setters Afaan, Anthony Mon Amour and Bodfari
Komaite should also ensure a strong gallop.
