SUNDAY EXPRESS
HIS owner is the leading trainer of camels but Summerghand did not resemble one when he arrived like a whirlwind to snatch the Unibet Stewards’ Cup at Glorious Goodwood.
Partnered by Danny Tudhope, the 22-1 shot roped-in Kimifive in the dying strides with only a head to spare.
Brian The Snail defied his odds of 66-1 – and name – by finishing third.
Summerghand’s owner, Hamad Rashid bin Ghadayer, is one of the stars on the camel racing circuit in Dubai.
“It’s very hard to come here and win races like this,’ said Tudhope.
“I’ve ridden in this one a few times without success.”
On the day that racegoers were denied the chance to attend for the first time since lockdown in March after Prime Minister Boris Johnson postponed the easing of restrictions,tudhope was not complaining.
“When you come back in and there’s nobody to cheer you in, that’s the only negative,” he added.
“I suppose we’ve sort of got used to it as we have been doing it without crowds for the last couple of months.” Victory was very much one for racing’s good guys.
After Stradivarius managed to escape from behind a wall of horses when making it an historic fourth victory in Tuesday’s Goodwood Cup,tudhope was praised by the winning connections after he allowed the history maker a gap when his mount, Eagles By
Day who was fourth, was beaten.
“He was going better than me at the time, I did not have the horse to go with him,” said the modest Tudhope. “If I did not give him room, he would have made his own room.”
It was in the 1985 Stewards’ Cup that Stan Mellor, who died aged 83 on Friday, trained one of his notable winners when Al Trui took the prize.
Mellor, who was awarded an MBE for his services to the sport, will forever be remembered as the first jump jockey to ride 1,000 winners back in 1971 when triumphing on Ouzo at
Nottingham. He was one of a few jockeys to beat the mighty Arkle when he partnered Stalbridge Colonist to victory the 1966 Hennessy Gold Cup.
Mellor was champion jump jockey on three occasions and was regarded as one of the hard men of the game and, like Tudhope, was also one of the good guys.
WILLIAM BUICK enjoyed a fine 130-1 four-timer from eight rides at Newmarket yesterday to take him up to 50 winners for the season.
His afternoon started with victories for Godolphin aboard 4-6 favourite Danilova, trained by Charlie Appleby, in the sevenfurlong fillies’ novice, then the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Ghaly (3-1 favourite) in the mile handicap.
The Mark Johnston-trained Basilicata (13-2) made it three in the six-furlong fillies’ nursery, following in the footsteps of stablemate and last year’s dead-heat winner Rose Of Kildare, who went on to land the Musidora last month.
Buick’s final winner came on the Richard Hughes-trained three-year-old Karibana (13-8 favourite) in the seven-furlong handicap.
He also finished second on
Dutch Painting in the 1m2f fillies’ handicap, Expressionism in the Listed Chalice Stakes and Zuba in the concluding 1m4f handicap. Moonlight Spirit was his sole mount to finish out of the first two when trailing in last of four in the Further Flight Stakes.
Karibana was Buick’s 50th winner in Britain, moving him 10 behind Oisin Murphy in the Flat jockeys’ championship with Paddy Power cutting Buick to 5-1 (from 7-1) to land the title.
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