Church Island a landmark win in bet365 Gold Cup
Youth and experience can be a powerful concoction mixed in the right proportions. Adrian Heskin is a jockey barely out of the novice stage but Church Island has been there, seen it, done it and has a wardrobe-full of t-shirts to prove it.
Michael Hourigan is an alchemist of a trainer who put them, patience and a touch of boldness together with the result being the winner of the bet365 Gold up at Sandown Park. Church Island had finished fourth in the race 12 months ago – just 12 days after finishing second in the Irish Grand National - and Hourigan had set about keeping this fast-ground chaser under raps until the spring weather had taken hold.
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