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Ribchester has put on an impressive front-running display to win the Group One Lockinge Stakes at Newbury giving Godolphin a record eighth win in the race.
The four-year-old, trained by Richard Fahey and ridden by William Buick, kept finding more in front and was far too strong for the opposition in the first English domestic Group One race of the season for older horses.
"It was a huge performance. We felt there was one in him and it's all come together," Fahey said.
"As he's got older he's got wiser. If we could get his mind right we always felt he'd be special.
"That's a strong word for a trainer to use but when you see a performance like that, it was special."
Ribchester is a son of the Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Iffraaj and has now had 11 starts for four wins, six placings and more than £1.5 million in prize-money. The Lockinge win follows his Group One breakthrough in last season's Prix Jacques Le Marois.
The win follows an outstanding southern hemisphere season for Iffraaj, who sired the New Zealand-Australian Derby double with Gingernuts and Jon Snow.
The four-year-old, trained by Richard Fahey and ridden by William Buick, kept finding more in front and was far too strong for the opposition in the first English domestic Group One race of the season for older horses.
"It was a huge performance. We felt there was one in him and it's all come together," Fahey said.
"As he's got older he's got wiser. If we could get his mind right we always felt he'd be special.
"That's a strong word for a trainer to use but when you see a performance like that, it was special."
Ribchester is a son of the Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Iffraaj and has now had 11 starts for four wins, six placings and more than £1.5 million in prize-money. The Lockinge win follows his Group One breakthrough in last season's Prix Jacques Le Marois.
The win follows an outstanding southern hemisphere season for Iffraaj, who sired the New Zealand-Australian Derby double with Gingernuts and Jon Snow.