Hurry-up Harry’s sweet revenge
CARA SEEN OFF IN CUP
beat last year’s winner Limato by a length-and-a-quarter and give Godolphin founder Sheikh Mohammed a 68th birthday gift.
Brando took third at 28-1, with Caravaggio a flat fourth.
“He’d have won last time, without a shadow of a doubt, but we were a little bit unfortunate with the way the race turned out,” reasoned Kirby.
“I came back saying I should have won, and it was at the bottom of my heart that, today, he’d show them the way it was.
“The race couldn’t have gone any better – he quickened and showed how good he really is.”
Harry Angel’s trainer Clive Cox, winner of the race with the Kirby- ridden Lethal Force in 2013, added: “He’s a special horse – we always hoped he was Group 1 material, and he is.” Cox, who will now prepare Harry Angel for the 32Red Sprint Cup at Haydock Park on September 9, added: “Although he was beaten at Ascot and Adam was disappointed, the look in the horse’s eye when he came off the track – it was like, ‘OK guys, I’m getting this.’ “Coming here today, I was very confident.” O’brien and Caravaggio’s rider Ryan Moore enjoyed better fortune – eventually – in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes as 5-6 market leader Gustav Klimt overcame a troubled passage to reel in Nebo by a head and earn a quote of 5-1 favourite for next year’s 2000 Guineas.