Fancy Blue was Donnacha O’Brien’s first runner as a trainer in the UK and gave the Irish handler reason to celebrate as she became his first UK winner in the Gr1 Qatar Nassau Stakes
Star filly Minding, the world’s joint best-three-year-old filly beforehand, won the Gr1 Qatar Nassau Stakes, the feature race on day five of the Qatar Goodwood Festival and Europe’s richest race for fillies and mares.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
