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Richard Fahey: reached a big milestone at Ayr 1 of 1 UPDATED 8:19PM, MAY 11 2021
Richard Fahey trained his 3,000th winner in Britain on Tuesday evening as Hong Kong Harry stormed home to take the 7f handicap at Ayr, with stablemate Galipoli finishing second.
Fahey has been responsible for Group 1 winners Ribchester and Mayson among many others and reached the landmark with jockey Paul Hanagan in the saddle.
Fahey said: “I would never have dreamed of reaching 3,000 winners when I started out, to have had 30 would have been enough back then! However, I’m obviously delighted to have reached such a fantastic milestone now and the credit must go to all my team as I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them.
Fahey says Ribchester the highlight among 3,000 British winners
Tue 11 May 2021
Watch a full replay of how Hong Kong Harry provided Richard Fahey with his 3,000th British winner at Ayr on Tuesday plus reaction from winning-rider Paul Hanagan.
Richard Fahey claimed his 3,000th British winner when Hong Kong Harry scored at Ayr on Tuesday evening.
Based in Malton, North Yorkshire, Fahey has long had a prolific strike rate from his Musley Bank yard.
He has trained more than 150 winners for the past six seasons and in 2015 equalled the record for most winners in a calendar year when saddling 235 – a figure subsequently broken by Mark Johnston in 2019.
Chapple-Hyam overjoyed as Guineas runner-up Saffron Beach shows her quality
By Andy Stephens@StevoGG
Saffron Beach had finished runner-up in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday.
The Newmarket trainer is hugely respected among her peers but has never trained anything more significant than a Group Three winner. A near-miss in one of the season s most prestigious races gave her a huge thrill. Can you just say that again, that sounded good! she said to Racing TV s Tom Stanley after he had begun his interview with her by saying Saffron Beach had finished second in the Guineas.
“What can I say? Aidan O’Brien is just a genius, she added. He is hard to take on and I can’t wait for him to retire!