There was early drama as Ralph Beckett\u2019s race regular and leading fancy Kinross was withdrawn at the start after receiving a kick, while Ed Walker\u2019s Royal Ascot winner Noble Champion was eased down and pulled up early into the piece.<\/p>\n
However, Doyle avoided any complications as she latched Witness Stand on to the small cluster to go forward from start, always in the slipstream of customary front-runner Quinault and defending champion Audience.<\/p>\n
It looked momentarily like Audience would recreate last year\u2019s heroics, but the 25-1 winner found plenty in reserve inside the final furlong to gallop home two-and-three-quarter-lengths clear of William Haggas\u2019 Lake Forest, the only runner to emerge from the chasing pack late on.<\/p>\n
Insole said: \u201cAs a trainer you wait your whole life for a good horse and to win the Lennox is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bought him for a hundred grand and felt he\u2019d gone under the radar as there were higher offers for him that came our way afterwards. I already had this race in mind for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was his Chester run (second in a Listed race) that gave us the confidence to come here, and when I saw the rain this morning and the slower ground I knew it would be to his advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s in the Hungerford (at Newbury), but would have to carry a penalty now. I also put him in the Foret this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
For co-trainer Newland it was a red-letter day in his new venture alongside Insole training on the level alongside his Grand National heroics in the jumps sphere. He is also a part-owner of the winner.<\/p>\n
Newland said: \u201cIt\u2019s a great result and fair play to Jamie and all the team. It was a lovely ride from Hollie in a funny sort of race, but I\u2019m not complaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cJamie leads the Flat team day-to-day, but I am involved in the background and discussing the training and placing of horses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m also a part-owner of that horse so it\u2019s a terrific result. He was bought to be a flag bearer due to his high rating and it was a superb bit of purchasing by Jamie and Matt Holdsworth at the sales and now we\u2019ve had a payday to get some money back and give us a high-profile winner which is fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt\u2019s more than dipping our toe in and we\u2019re more of a Flat yard now. There\u2019s a number of reasons for that but I\u2019m loving the new challenge of it and it\u2019s quite a big thing to try and re-establish yourself as a Flat yard after being a jumps yard for so long.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thrilled with how it\u2019s going and we\u2019ve some lovely horses coming through. It\u2019s great fun and I\u2019ve been doing the job 20 years so it\u2019s nice to have a new challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was early drama as Ralph Beckett\u2019s race regular and leading fancy Kinross was withdrawn at the start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-31300","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\/31300","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=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}