Bengali Boys comes home clear
Bengali Boys comes home clear

Newbury prize goes back again to Yorkshire with Richard Fahey


Bengali Boys routed the opposition to give Richard Fahey a third win in five years in the £250,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint.

3.35 Newbury - Weatherbys Super Sprint

Result:

1st Bengali Boys 12/1
2nd Declarationoflove 20/1
3rd Maggies Angel 9/4F
4th Corinthia Knight 8/1
5th Pursuing The Dream 33/1
6th Mother Of Dragons 12/1
(Sky Bet paid six places on each-way bets)

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One of five runners for Richard Fahey, including well-backed favourite Maggies Angel, there was only one horse in this year's Weatherbys Super Sprint from some way out.

With two furlongs to run Barry McHugh kicked him into a clear advantage and he drew further and further clear, the 12/1 chance winning by six lengths.

Declarationoflove stayed on to take second for Tom Clover, with Maggies Angel eventually picking up third place.

Fahey won the valuable prize in 2012 with Peniaphobia and Lathom two years ago.

McHugh said: "He'd go and do it again! What a star of a horse he is, to travel in that ground and win like he did.

"I came down with Richard in the car and I was worried about the filly (Maggies Angel), but this lad has tightened up a hell of a lot since his break and he wasn't a no-hoper.

"This is what it's all about for owners now, to get one at a reasonable price and win a pot like this - it pays for his way and a few others."

Fahey said: "It looks like he likes that ground! He'd been working well and had some solid form.

"It's a race we target every year because it's for the sort of cheap horses that we like to buy and this fellow only cost €11,000."

He added: "I said the day we bought him he'd win the Weatherbys Super Sprint - it's not often you can say that!"

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