QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes
Group 1, Ascot 13:35
£600,000 added,
3yo plus,
6f, Class 1   
Saturday 17th October 2020

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1 Glen Shiel 16/1
2 Brando 80/1
3 One Master 11/2
16 ran NR: Dubai Station Distances: nse, ½l, ½l
Time: 1m 16.74s (slow by 4.34s)

Just 35 minutes after winning recording her first QIPCO British Champions Day success, Hollie Doyle added a first G1 victory to her CV as Glen Shiel held on by a nose in a thrilling finish. 
 
The six-year-old Glen Shiel was soon at the head of the affairs and took the 16-strong field along before being headed entering the final furlong by Oxted. However, the son of Pivotal rallied gamely to regain the lead and stayed on to repel the late challenge of Brando by a nose. 
 
This was a first QIPCO British Champions Day victory for trainer Archie Watson. 
 
Doyle, who was recording a 203/1 QIPCO British Champions Day double, said: "This is not about me, it's about Archie Watson, as he has campaigned this horse unbelievably. No one else would have won a G1 with this horse.
 
"It is a dream come true, a massive dream come true, especially on this horse. Everyone in the yard adores him. 
 
"We got him out of Andre Fabre's and we ran him over 10 furlongs. Archie kept stepping him back and back in trip and I am not going to lie, even I doubted it, but this is obviously the key to him. 
 
"My heart sunk when I got joined on the line, I thought Tom Eaves had just nabbed me, so I didn't know if I had won. I honestly thought I hadn't won to be honest.
 
"It was too close for comfort really. I thought I hadn't won so, to have had the result we have was incredible. Me and Oxted had a good old battle from the three-pole and I thought that I would be doing well to hold on like I did, but Glen Shiel is such a game horse. He is incredible."

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Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 2)
£600,000 added, 3yo plus, 6f, Class 1
16 ran
Going: Soft

POS. (DRAW) DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1 (9)      Glen Shiel 6 9-2 Archie Watson Hollie Doyle 16/1
2 (7) nse Brando 8 9-2 Kevin Ryan Tom Eaves 80/1
3 (11) ½ One Master 6 8-13 William Haggas Pierre-Charles Boudot 11/2
4 (10) ½ Art Power 3 9-1 Tim Easterby Silvestre De Sousa 7/1
5 (13) nse Oxted 4 9-2 Roger Teal Cieren Fallon 9/1
6 (5) 1¾ Onassis 3 8-12 Charlie Fellowes Hayley Turner 33/1
7 (4) nk Lope Y Fernandez 3 9-1 A P O'Brien Ryan Moore 16/1
8 (16) ¾ Dream Of Dreams 6 9-2 Sir Michael Stoute Oisin Murphy 3/1F
9 (1) ¾ Happy Power 4 9-2 Andrew Balding James Doyle 17/2
10 (15) hd Sonaiyla 4 8-13 P Twomey W J Lee 12/1
11 (8) nk Speak In Colours 5 9-2 Joseph O'Brien Jim Crowley 40/1
12 (6) 1¼ The Tin Man 8 9-2 James Fanshawe Adam Kirby 25/1
13 (3) shd Chiefofchiefs 7 9-2 Charlie Fellowes William Buick 125/1
14 (17) hd Starman 3 9-1 Ed Walker Tom Marquand 9/1
15 (12) 2¼ Jouska 3 8-12 Henry Candy Rob Hornby 80/1
16 (2) ½ Cape Byron 6 9-2 Roger Varian Andrea Atzeni 22/1
NR 11 (14) Dubai Station 3 9-1 K R Burke NON RUNNER