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Cercene gave Jockey Gary Carroll and coach Joseph Murphy one day to remember when he courageously held the French Hotpot Zarigana to win the issues of the coronation in Royal Ascot.
Presented as a confrontation between the French winner of 1,000 Guinea, Zarigana and Owen Burrows, completed Falakeyah, it was the Irish origin that stole the show to become the most expensive winner in the race at 33-1.
Falakeyah’s challenge was trusted in trigger after having run, but 6-4 Zarigana preferred looked privileged to jump into the hands of Mickael Barzalona and in fact sought to have briefly passed Cercene.
However, the third Irish hoop should not be refused and proved that its Curragh performance was not a stroke of luck when she was fighting to obtain a half-length verdict.
Murphy said: “We have always loved her. We left her a little longer but good filths, you always leave a little longer, you never put them.
“He has put it out, he is confident and he has mounted for me 17 years now.
“It’s 50 years of work, that’s what it is, love and care, and everything for the owners we have, all our people, it’s just a whole group of people together. It is paradise on earth.
“It is the ambition of a life to have a winner of group one. She is in Australia – a father I love – and his half -brother (Perotto) won the Britannia for the pedigree to be there and if it was greater, I would not have it!
“I was hoping that Lake Victoria stayed because we would have a less race and we would have the pace and drive it more easily, you know what I mean.
“She traveled well, Gary gave her a big walk, and we thought that being in Australia, she would also stay. She was heading and returned. She waited for something to direct her, but she is very difficult and a dream of training. The plan was today so we are going to draw new plans.”
Carroll said: “It’s incredible. I have been driving for a long time and I was placed in many groups. This is my first and if I had to make a group one winner for Joe Murphy.
Gary Carroll Hisist The Coronation Stakes Trophy in the air after having guided Cercene Home to Royal Ascot
“I ride for him since I was an assertion of 7 LB and he was very, very good with me, so I am delighted to be able to reimburse him.
“She ran a blinder at Curragh where the slow rhythm was not suitable. We went a little better there today, arrived at the front of an overrun and she waited, the French horse came and led me; to be just for this one, she is not tall but she is very hard and she pulled her head for me.
“It’s extremely satisfactory to win a group. They are so difficult to find. Good horses are very difficult to find. To do this, Royal Ascot, Magic.
“After the Guinea race, a better racing race there, she would have finished again, I think she took a step forward and she is ultra-color, she does not know when to abandon.”
Ethics diamond sparkles for Willie Mullins
Ethical Diamond made it an important day for Willie Mullins when switching off the outside to win the issues of the Duke of Edinburgh in the hands of Ryan Moore.
Mullins and his wife Jackie had participated in the royal procession before the race and its double-use artist had no trouble justifying the 3-1 favoritism.
Fourth last year, he was 2 more lb after also finishing fourth in the county in Cheltenham – but the result barely looked at doubt and he returned to the house two lengths from Mutaawid and Naqeeb.
Ethical Diamond won the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
Mullins said: “Last year, he just ran too free and things did not work for him, but he still ran a cracker to be fourth, so I thought that if we were doing things correctly this year, he had a real chance live and that worked in this way.
“We are going to give him a short break, bring him home; We’re going to watch York then a race like the Ebor. We would like (going to Australia) if we could have it qualified, it was my first thought to come.
“I think he would manage a trip to Australia, he bears the hood because he is a bit passionate, but it would not be a problem.
“There is also a big one about the obstacles in him, but for the moment, we will focus on flat races.”
He added: “These are just fantastic days, Jackie told me just coming here today” take it “, then to have a winner on top which is the icing on the cake.
“Tuesday was a little disappointing, but we live to fight another day and, hope, reaching the upper (unlucky in the issues of Ascot for the king and the queen) will be back for the same race next year. Ryan had nowhere to go, he was just locked inside and that was.”
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