But it was the winner Kosuke Kitajima who re-wrote history with a world record of 59

But it was the winner, Kosuke Kitajima who re-wrote history with a world record of 59.78.Lying in seventh place at the turn Kitajima stormed to victory to win Japan’s first ever gold at a world championship “Initially I was disappointed,” said Gibson “I paced Kitajima to a world record. The 23-year-old won bronze but was rewarded with a British record of 1min 0.37sec. Just as he did in the semi-finals, Gibson attacked from the start, turning in first place in 27.86sec, over half a second under world record pace.In a three-way fight for gold Gibson’s early pace took its toll. The tears were flowing into the temporary pool in the Palau Sant Jordi here as three world records fell on day two of the World Championship.
James Gibson won Britain’s first medal of the week, a bronze racing in the fastest field ever assembled in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke. That’s what happened to me at Newmarket.”You can tell the good guys by the quantity of credit they take..

You’ve always got to have the best, or nearly the best, horse in the race, to win.”People sometimes talk about a jockey being in form, but if you look closely you’d realise that it’s the yards he rides for that are in form rather than the jockey himself. If the horse can’t go, there is absolutely nothing you can do to help. “You get remembered more for the muck-ups than any wins you might have.”But our performance is so much influenced by the horse I would put the split at 80-20. Even then, though, we never got Queen’s Logic going as a three-year-old.”You have to enjoy anything this game gives you because you never know what is just around the corner to kick you in the plums.”Now the attitude to Drowne has altered, even if he remains gratifyingly the same “Things do change the higher you get,” he says. They got me back and maybe even put me higher than I was before. That it was going to be relegation to just being a handicap jockey all my life.”But the next year I got on Queen’s Logic and Harmonic Way. “When he won the Dewhurst I remember thinking I might just have lost my chance.

“I broke my leg and missed Tobougg when he was the champion two-year-old,” he says. “By Saturday night,” Drowne says, “I was back in love again.”It is a process with which Drowne is familiar. “For half an hour afterwards I was asking myself why do I bother? Why do I traipse around at five o’clock every morning and have this happen? But it soon wore off.”Silca’s Gift in the Albany Stakes and Holborn’s Windsor Castle Stakes win helped to complete the soothing process. On better ground, in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, the colt showed his true form for Holland “After Zafeen won I was hating the place,” Drowne says. To this day, he remains vulnerable to the more impetuous owners, who, if they cannot be associated with a winning horse, quickly find another animal, the scapegoat.Thus it was with Zafeen, whose failure in the Irish 2,000 Guineas was somehow attributed to his jockey.