BOILOVER IN 1000 GUINEAS

By Graham Potter | Sunday, May 3, 2009

It was outsiders all around as Ghanaati (20-1) beat off Cuis Ghaire (12-1) and Super Sleuth (33-1) to take out the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

The 8-11 favourite Rainbow View never fired a shot, finishing fifth.

The father/son combination of seventy-two-year-old trainer Barry Hills and jockey Richard Hills pulled off the upset with a strong on the pace showing which proved too much for the opposition in the first fillies classic of the season.

Ghanaati, who was racing first-up after close on six months away from the action, gave her trainer his second success in the race. Hills last won the race in 1978 with Enstone Spark. Jockey Richard Hills has gone one better than that. This was his third time he had saluted in the 1000 Guineas.

Ghanaati was Barry Hills’s eleventh Classic victory.
Trainer John Gosden shrugged off the disappointing defeat of the main fancy Rainbow View, who suffered her first loss in five starts.

“She was in good form. She worked well. She hated the ground. It was nobody’s fault,” concluded Gosden.