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.
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