The highs and lows of horse racing were felt last week by British-based trainer George Boughey. Less than a week after he had to retire Bow Echo (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), undoubtedly, the best horse he has ever trained, he won the GI Christophe Clement Turf Stakes at Saratoga with the mare Survie (Ire) (Churchill ({Ire}). It was the second Saratoga stakes win for her at the meet, coming just 13 days after she won the GII Glens Falls Stakes.Boughey joined this week's TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. He was the Gainesway Guest of the Week.When asked to address why he brought a horse back in 13 days and worked her in between starts, Boughey acknowledged that European trainers don't always see eye-to-eye with American trainers.“Obviously, different jurisdictions around the world do things differently and for me it was quite a normal preparation,” Boughey said. “We tried it earlier in the year when she went to Saudi Arabia. She ran at Lingfield on the all-weather and then ran 13 days later in the Middle East. So she had to ship out there, train out on the track for a week and then run, and she seemed to handle it very well. In my opinion, that set her up beautifully for this summer. The style of racing was obviously very different in England, but being able to take those two races very quickly meant that the Glens Falls and the Christophe Clement looked like a beautiful setup for her.”Boughey confirmed that Survie will make her next start in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf rather than the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.“The mile-and-a-half distance in the Turf is a massive thing for her,” Boughey said. “I had intentionally been running her a bit short for a while knowing that she's already won a Group 2 in France over 12 furlongs. So her stamina was assured. We just wanted to build up to that. So I'd kick myself if I ran in a shorter race in the Filly & Mare Turf and she didn't quite get there.”Bow Echo was retired due to an injury to his left front fetlock. Undefeated in six career starts, he was considered the best miler in Europe.“I think you kind of get used to it as a trainer, the highs and lows of it,” he said. “But I've made it sort of my thing through my career not to get too high and not to get too low on success and failure. Bow Echo was an amazing horse and I might go a long time to find another one like him.”The “Fastest Horse of the Week” was GIII Iselin Stakes winner Bishops Bay (Uncle Mo), who earned a 106 Beyer figure. The Fastest Horse of the Week is sponsored by WinStar Farm, the home of the outstanding stallion Constitution.Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the PHBA, 1/ST TV and West Point Thoroughbreds, much of the discussion among Randy Moss, Bill Finley, and Zoe Cadman centered on the Marshall Gramm scandal. Gramm was charged with multiple rules violations by HISA over unauthorized access to confidential horse health information.“Marshall, what the hell were you thinking?” Finley said. “This was a very dumb move.”Questions were also raised as to whether or not HISA had the proper security measures in place that would have kept Gramm from being able to access the information.The team also reviewed Survie's big win in the Christophe Clement and the magnificent performance by the filly Luster (Knicks Go) in the King's Plate.Click here to listen to the podcast and click here to watch the podcast.The post George Boughey Joins TDN Writers’ Room, Team Discuss Gramm Situation appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.