Jockey Jim Crowley chalked up win number six of Royal Ascot 2020 as Khaloosy recorded an impressive four and a half length victory in the mile Britannia Heritage Handicap on Thursday.
Gr1-winning Defoe will make his UAE and 2020 debut when the 6yo gelding kicks off his season in Saturday’s Gr2 $350,000 Dubai City of Gold
“It’s great. I don’t know what to say. It’s a dream really. It’s unbelievable. I rode him like the best horse in the race. He travelled brilliant and he is so laid back he just goes to sleep. When I pulled him out he was always going to get there.”
“York is a great place to have runners and to take owners. This is a meeting we like to target and I think this is the strongest team we have assembled for it so far.”
Aidan O’Brien’s name is written like no other across the history of the Dubai Duty Free 2014 Irish Derby, having landed a record ten victories, and Australia is hot favourite to make it a football team’s worth of winners for the master of Ballydoyle.
ROBYN LOUW: Celebrations, but Judy Brannigan cautions that the industry needs to acknowledge the importance of the small breeder
‘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
