- Trainer savours first Group Two success in Britain
- Toimy Son has credentials to land Cambridgeshire
From a stud farm in South Africa to the winners’ enclosure on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile with a 10-year stint as an airline pilot in along the way, Dylan Cunha has enjoyed one of the more unconventional racing journeys and it scaled a new peak on Friday as Prague, the third-favourite of four runners, gave the trainer a first British Group Two success in the £125,000 Joel Stakes.
The £71,000 first prize for Prague’s latest win alone represents a huge return on the £10,000 that Cunha paid for the colt – a son of Galileo, no less – as an unraced three-year-old reject from the all-powerful Coolmore Stud operation last October.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/27/former-pilot-cunha-charts-new-territory-as-one-time-reject-prague-proves-worth
Author : Greg Wood at Newmarket
Publish date : 2024-09-27 16:53:03
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