Pinatubo crowns perfect season with bridges victory at G1 Darley Dehurst Stakes

Pinatubo completed an unbeaten campaign at the age of two, boldly snatching the G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes title on soft ground at Newmarket, UK, on ​​Saturday, October 12.

The dowry, trained by Charlie Appleby and descended from the stallion "Shamardal" and was seeking his second consecutive win in the G1 level at seven furlongs after his sweeping victory in the Vincent O'Brien National Six race, jumped smoothly and centered among rivals in the sixth row of nine horses participated In the race, led by knight William Buick.

Pinatubo made progress and began pushing for second place on the outskirts of the last quarter-mile and boosted his pace to enter Arizona for the lead before reaching the final furlong. Al-Muhr took over the race shortly afterwards and rested strongly to gain a two-second margin of 1.26.55 minutes on a soft ground.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: "When you win such a high level and show a lot of boldness, it makes you very happy. I was following the march of Pinatubo and watched him several times, and we all love him.

"Every year you have a favorite horse, and our favorite horse this year is Pinatubo. We hope to find a horse like him next year." Schmirdel is a very good horse and produces good horses.

"We will enjoy the winter thanks and look forward to Pinatubo and the rest of our other horses next year.

"Pinatubo has a big heart," said Charlie Appleby. "I was confident, although he didn't move during the race how we all saw him do because the floor was soft. It was a testament to the horse."

"The ramp can hinder the progress of any horse. I told William to hold Pinatubo for as long as possible until he reached the high ground before being asked. William gave him outstanding leadership, and once he reached the stage of the fight, Pinatubo would not give up."

"I would like to thank His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. His Highness gives us full confidence to drive these horses in various races. I say well to all the team members in the stable who have done a great job, and also to the staff there in Ireland who oversaw the formation of this dowry. It is really great to be here today and achieve the desired results.

"It's great for the public. We all saw last weekend what winning meant for Enebel and unfortunately such results could happen. Sometimes when you're at the heart of the industry, you may not realize what winning means to the public." We all stand behind this horse, and fortunately it has gone the right way and kept the dream alive during the winter.

"We haven't decided yet which of our horses heading to Dubai - we were more interested in getting the job done first - would be a great discussion to do.

William Buick said: `` Pinatubo '' was impressive in the National Stakes but you can not expect such performance from any horse on such a floor, and showed him excellence already today, and the floor was difficult and required a great effort, while there were some horses that raised the level of performance.

"Today the test was different to him, and it was the closest thing to a test of endurance but" Pinatubo "is an excellent horse and has an excellent mind, and his dream of cavalry, I am very lucky to lead such horses.

"He ran at a good pace, and my focus was not to let a horse run away from me on such a ground. The anomalous ground, which is embodied today, had to show its excellence to win.

"He's an unbeaten horse, he has a mind and he has a pedigree and he has the proportions that he can develop at the age of three, and he will certainly endure the mileage. There is a bit of tolerance in the mother's lineage, and horses of this kind rarely appear in the arena, so I'm very lucky."