Hornby looking to Alcohol Free to spark Lockinge celebration
Rider keen to seize Newbury opportunity on Group One winner.
Rob Hornby hopes his stock can continue to rise as he prepares to take the ride on Alcohol Free in the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday. The filly enjoyed a fantastic campaign last year, taking the Group Three Fred Darling on debut before going on to land a pair of Group One prizes in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. Her final run of the campaign was an eighth-placed effort behind Baaeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, after which regular rider Oisin Murphy was suspended and trainer Andrew Balding allocated the ride to Hornby. Alcohol Free made her four-year-old debut in the Group Two bet365 Mile at Sandown in late April, a race in which she finished third behind Sir Michael Stoute’s Lights On in a run Hornby expects will leave the filly fitter and more finely tuned for her Newbury outing. “We thought that for her first run of the year we’d make sure we did it the right way round, she might have looked a little bit keen on television but she doesn’t ride as bad as she looks,” he said.Follow us on Twitter racing365dotcom and like our Facebook page.
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