Surrounded by wellwishers after what had seemed an unlikely triumph at the furlong pole, O’Brien lifted his mobile to make the briefest but most important of calls. Thanks, ma. Oh, thanks, ma. “Delighted for everybody,” “a lot of hard work for a lot of people”, “we never expect to win these races” and other old favourites were given another outing. “We’re so delighted that it happened today because you could very easily go to the end of the year and not win another one.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2017 15:15 UTC