Clive Cox\u2019s Fearnot showed his love for Ascot once again when winning the Betfred Handicap under David Probert.<\/p>\n
The Invincible Spirit three-year-old was third when beaten only half a length over the same course and distance at the Royal meeting, prior to which he was wide-margin handicap winner at the track in May.<\/p>\n
He returned a 10-1 chance tackling the straight mile for a third time and cut his way through a large field when sticking to the inside rail to eventually prevail by half a length from 5-2 favourite Hickory.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great run here in the Britannia and I think we were able to fine tune it today with a bit more confidence as he looked like he was going to win that at the furlong pole,\u201d said Cox.<\/p>\n
\u201cDavid has given him a very confident, beautiful ride today and it was great to watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s just a one-track kind of horse and he\u2019s improving and visually strengthened again since the Britannia. He has a very powerful turn of foot which is very special.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased and mentally he has come forward a lot, we saw that even saddling him today. He was very much a baby working it all out to start with and when he won impressively here the first time he still didn\u2019t realise what it was all about.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the chance to ride the race again in the Britannia we might have sat a bit longer on him, but today was perfect and he showed what we always dreamt of seeing and did it well, he\u2019s exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some great days with the owner and Supremacy would be the best known of Jason\u2019s (Goddard) previous horses, we\u2019ve been very lucky together.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very nice horse to go forwards with and there was a few interested parties after the Britannia but thank goodness he is still here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Handicaps could now be out of the equation as Cox eyes options at a higher level.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI think he will cope with Pattern company as he is settling so nicely and has that turn of foot we would be pleased to see with many horses. I think the handicapping possibilities are probably ending after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
William Haggas won the Me2 Club Handicap with Tenability, who built on a Windsor success last time out to prevail by two and a half lengths as the 11-10 favourite under Tom Marquand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s only just ready for a race like this,\u201d said Haggas.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a baby, he\u2019s not the right shape yet, but next year he\u2019ll be a fine horse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe trained the mother and she was a miler, seven furlongs or a mile, and I think Frankel can put some stamina into them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis horse has always looked like he didn\u2019t have much speed so we thought he might stay a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The concluding Whispering Angel Handicap went the way of Simon and Ed Crisford\u2019s Cover Up, a 7-2 chance under William Buick who prevailed by three-quarters of a length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clive Cox\u2019s Fearnot showed his love for Ascot once again when winning the Betfred Handicap under David Probert.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}