Hamish lifts Lodge honours with ease at Ascot
Favourite obliges in Group Three contest.
Hamish produced a career-best effort with an easy victory in the Peroni Nastro Azzurro Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot. Pat Dobbs could not have had a more simple task in the Group Three contest, as the six-year-old Motivator gelding travelled like a dream throughout. Always in the front rank, tracking the pace set by Third Realm, backers of the 11-10 favourite never had a moment’s worry, as Dobbs barely had to move a muscle in the mile-and-a-half contest.Maureen Haggas, assistant and wife to trainer William Haggas, has recently recovered from a neck injury sustained in a gallops fall in August. She said: “He’s my favourite. I ride him when I can ride and I ride him all the time. I love him. He just seems to get better. “He loves this soft ground. He is in the St Simon, which is a Group Three, so he will have four penalties. He doesn’t stay the long trip here. So, we will have to see. “He has run three times (this season), won two and was second in a Group One. He has just got to hang around until I am allowed to ride again, poor boy!”
Smoothly does it 😌
Hamish wins the Peroni Nastro Azzurro Cumberland Lodge Stakes for Pat Dobbs and William Haggas🥇#ITVRacing | @Ascot pic.twitter.com/bXsD3jitVO — ITV Racing (@itvracing) October 1, 2022
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