Sajir excelled at Deauville to give master trainer Andre Fabre a first success in the Prix Maurice de Gheest.<\/p>\n
James Doyle had attempted to keep things simple by sending his mount forward, but a furlong from home the challengers were gathering on either side with the eye drawn to Ois\u00edn Murphy aboard Sajir.<\/p>\n
Lazzat could soon give no more and it was left to Sajir to surge to glory, with Francis-Henri Graffard’s Prix Jean Prat winner Woodshauna unable to close the deficit despite also finishing strongly to take second. Lazzat would finish an honourable third.<\/p>\n
Fabre said: “This is the first time I’ve had him 100 per cent, he was in great condition.<\/p>\n
“Prince Faisal is a great breeder, a great owner and a great person.”<\/p>\n
The son of Prince Faisal’s Make Believe now looks set for an appearance at ParisLongchamp on Arc weekend, with Fabre adding: “Obviously, like his father, the Prix de la Foret will be his path.”<\/p>\n
It was Murphy’s third Group One win of the year after Lead Artist’s Lockinge win and striking aboard Tornado Alert in Germany recently.<\/p>\n
He was delighted to make a successful visit to the Normandy coast to reclaim the mount on Sajir and said: “”He was brilliant today. Andre had him spot on and he travelled beautifully for me.<\/p>\n
“He relaxed very well. I was a little bit behind but I tried not to get there too soon.<\/p>\n
“I think the horse improved 7lb on any form he’d shown before and he delivered.<\/p>\n
“Today he switched his leads and powered to the line. The way he bends his knee he feels like a horse that will handle juice. I’m so happy for Prince Faisal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sajir excelled at Deauville to give master trainer Andre Fabre a first success in the Prix Maurice de…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57307","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\/57307","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=57307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}