Richard Fahey: I gotta Feeling

Richard Fahey looks ahead to his runners on the first two days of the Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York.

I have to start the column by mentioning Ribchester’s win in the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville on Sunday. It was a great day for everyone here at Musley Bank, we’ve long thought he was a proper Group One horse and it was fantastic to see him win a big one – and win it well too.

He’s come out of the race brilliantly well, he’s really taken his racing very well this year. I’ll need to speak to John Ferguson but the plan before France was to go straight to the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot and imagine it still will be.

He’s an absolute star and its very exciting to think the plan looks to be to keep him training at four too.

Moving onto our York team for Wednesday and Arctic Feeling is first up in the Symphony Group Stakes. The handicapper has finally started to give him a bit of a chance but while he’d appreciate any rain, I can’t see it in the forecast. This is a typical sprint handicap, any one of 15 could win it, and I just hope things fall …

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