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Anthony McCoy returned to ride a winner on Quizical in the Pat Smullen Champions Hurry For Cancer Infection Ireland in the Curragh.
McCoy, 45, who murdered in 2015, completed on Aussie Valentine, ahead of older friend and Ruby Walsh.
In the St Leger, Search For A Song, ridden by Chris Hayes and trained by Dermot Weld completed using all Southern France third before Kew Gardens .
Victory on the three-year-old indicated a second win to get Hayes in the race.
The surfaced six years back on Voleuse De Cours.
Smullen, the nine-time Irish champion flat jockey who is being treated for pancreatic cancer, then persuaded McCoy and eight other former top jockeys, including Walsh and Kieren Fallon, to come out of retirement to get involved in the race that has raised over 2m Euro for cancer study. He could not fulfil plans to ride himself.
McCoy, Britain’s 20-time champion jump jockey who had been successful in a races, had previously said he would not.
On the same card, the unbeaten colt Pinatubo, a part of Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin horse racing and breeding empire, publicly promoted his Classic credentials for 2020 using a stunning success under jockey William Buick from the Vincent O’Brien National Stakes on Irish flat racing’s Champions Weekend.
The colt, trained by Charlie Appleby and now with five wins out of five starts, is a much more stronger favorite for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in May following a nine-length romp.
The result was significant for Buick who missed the initial four wins because of what’s described as’post head-injury syndrome’ .
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