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- Updated: October 11, 2016
Jim Crowley showed why he will be crowned champion jockey on British Champions Day at Ascot with a polished display on C Note at Leicester.
Crowley, who has an unassailable lead over 2015 titleholder Silvestre de Sousa, worked the oracle on the 4-1 chance.
The youngest horse in the race at the age of three, the Iffraaj had taken on the likes of leading Queen Elizabeth II Stakes fancy Ribchester in the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot.
A big drop in grade and helped by wearing blinkers for the first time, Martyn Meade’s charge responded to Crowley’s urgings to challenge from halfway in this seven-furlong heat and battled on well to beat Intransigent by a length and a quarter.
“Obviously, the blinkers certainly worked,” Crowley told At The Races.
“He travelled very strongly and idled a bit in front, but he won nicely in the …
