Just watched this on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HMIPIr_z_A
A beautiful, uncharacteristically silk-smooth ride from Fallon – reading the jockey’s body language it looked as if Gitano Hernando won with a little in hand. Mine That Bird’s tendency to tail himself off early has now reached eccentric proportions.
Despite the temptation to enjoy some Wolverhampton-American form line jibes, we shouldn’t forget that Gitano Hernando’s unlucky 2nd in the Dee Stakes showed him to be an improving 3yo of potentially high class – he rather than South Easter was the horse to take out of that Derby trial.