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Fahey bids for York title
- Updated: October 4, 2016
Richard Fahey heads into York’s season-ending October meeting on Friday and Saturday with a healthy three-winner lead in the race to land the ‘Charles Clinkard Top Trainer at York’ award.
But the man from Musley Bank near Malton said: “We’ll need another couple of winners to just seal it.”
Fahey has enjoyed another great season at York, having sent out no fewer than eight winners on the course.
It has left him in prime position to reclaim the Knavesmire’s top trainer title, which he won for no less than seven consecutive seasons up to 2012.
Fahey said: “It would be great. It was getting a bit embarrassing there at one stage – a bit of competition did me no harm!
“Everybody wants a winner (at York), so it’s an achievement to be leading trainer there. North, South, East and West try and get winners there. But anyway, we still have to put it to bed yet.”
The chasing group, on five winners, are the three powerful stables of Sir Michael Stoute, William Haggas and Kevin Ryan.
As a demonstration of his desire to regain the title, at the initial entry stage for both of York’s cards, Fahey has chances in thirteen of the fourteen remaining contests, reflecting a whopping thirty-two …
