Paco Boy no crying shame in Lockinge Stakes
After 40 years of training horses from Classic winners to the ones who would be too slow to catch a cold, Richard Hannon had reckoned on seeing at all.
What he had not reckoned with was the depth of feeling that comes with training a horse like Paco Boy. Picked up for the price of a second-hand Mercedes, and sometimes derided as being worth less than the price of a clapped-out Mini by those who would be hard-pressed to tell the difference in equine terms, Paco Boy shut up his detractors with a sublime display of controlled power to win to totesport Lockinge Stakes at Newbury and reduce his trainer to tears.
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