Aidan O’Brien insists Ascot ground softer than official description after Auguste Rodin’s King George defeat
Mexicali Rose ridden by Wayne Hassett on the way to winning the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap at Ballybrit. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire.It was lucky No. 13 for Mexicali Rose in the Galway festival’s €120,000 feature on Tuesday evening as Joseph O’Brien broke new ground in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile.
The apprentice rider carried the colours of O’Brien’s race planner and ITV pundit Kevin Blake and secured vital splits off the inside rail to ultimately hold off Norwalk Havoc by half a length. This Songisforyou held on to third from last year’s winner Coeur D’or. “I rode her in Gowran last time out when they went a little too slow for her as she wants a good pace and further. Everything went perfect today, and she might improve again,” Hassett said.
Rachael Blackmore wins the Latin Quarter Beginners Chase on Thecompanysergeant at Ballybrit, Galway. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho Earlier, the champion trainer was both happy and somewhat defiant after Kyrpios’s Goodwood victory in course record time. “We have to be respectful of him and to him, because if you saw where he came from, it’s hard to believe that he is here today,” O’Brien said before proceeding to double down on his belief that ground conditions were too soft for Auguste Rodin in last Saturday’s King George at Ascot.
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