PRIDE OF JENNI REIGNS SUPREME IN A RACE THAT LEAVES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
By Graham Potter | Tuesday, March 5, 2024
IThe 2024 Queen Elizabeth Stakes turned into two races.
Up front ... and all but out of sight ... was Pride Of Jenni. Thirty lengths behind her (at one stage at least) came the balance of the field, racing only for the minor placings.
They weren’t even close enough for Pride Of Jenni to personally pound them into defeat, which she arguably would have done had anybody taken her on, but rather they were a submissive bunch of also-rans who, collectively, never raised even a hint of a challenge ... and, remember, the likes of Via Sistina, Mr Brightside and Cascadian figured in that lineup.
All of the chasing jockeys were seemingly happy to just die wondering!
As great a sight as it was in the moment, spin it any way you like, only Pride Of Jenni, trainer Ciaron Maker and jockey Declan Bates came out of the race with any credit ... and that will be ramped up in time to be to their everlasting credit.
The robust post-race debate was thus not about whether the best horse won the race, but rather it was about how the race was won. Read more ...
PRIDE OF JENNI REIGNS SUPREME IN A RACE THAT LEAVES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
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