The hard-headed Tote CEO left believing in miracles thanks to his star homebred
Alex's horse, Getaway, was retired after winning seven races. His daughter, 14, is brought up looking at the horse and loves it. The filly, Queens Gamble, won a ten-length race under Jonathan Burke. Her trainer, Oliver Sherwood, had been diagnosed with stage four lymphoma and had to undergo five rounds of chemo. He died shortly after. Alex's daughter was brought to the stable to look at her. She nearly knocked him over. He was a skeleton of a man. It was not the trainer's fault that the fillie won. They were not under any pressure to win. Their horses were running very poorly.
Bob Murphy bought a novice chaser Darrens Hope to have a mare for breeding. Darren's Hope won the race.
Just An Hour makes his debut for Joseph O'Brien in the mile two-year-old maiden at Dundalk on Friday evening. He is from the first crop of Triple Crown winner Justify and is the foal out of Hourglass, an unplaced Galileo half-sister to Shamardal bought for $1.1 million at the end of her racing career.
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