Ryan Moore is a master of the understated, but even the ice-cool champion jockey was left clearly moved after Workforce thundered to a recordbreaking victory in the Investec Derby at Epsom on Saturday.
The 26-year-old has suddenly found Classics coming his way more frequently than the London buses which adorned the inner running rail on the famous Surrey Downs.
Having broken his duck the previous day, when Snow Fairy fought her way through traffic to score, Moore was able to sit back and savour the moment aboard Sir Michael Stoute's colt as they powered away for a jaw-dropping seven-length triumph in a race-best time. At First Sight, the 100-1 outsider, sent a chill through the 100,000 Derby Day crowd on turning for home as he was poised to slip the field, Hermes Fake Handbags but Moore was alive to his efforts and led over a furlong out.
Workforce was the only one of the 12-strong field to collar the front-runner, with Frankie Dettori's gambled-on mount, Rewilding, finishing a halflength third.
Jan Vermeer, the 9-4 favourite in the absence of stablemate St Nicholas Abbey, came from the rear and was a further four lengths adrift in fourth.
While Kieren Fallon has always been the undisputed king of Epsom, Moore is emerging as a serious rival for that crown. Although he batted away Snow Fairy's Oaks win as merely another race, there was no hiding the inner delight as he climbed aboard the winner's podium, watched proudly by his father Gary, girlfriend Michelle, and son Toby.
"It is great to win this race as it is important to me," Moore said. "The Derby is the most important race for me and the reception I got from my friends and family was great. I am just lucky things have fallen right this weekend and this is a really special day. I'll remember it, that is for sure."
The Prince Khalid Abdullahowned Workforce was having only his third career start, with the Goodwood maiden winner having failed to fire properly when second in the Dante at York.
Moore, whose previous best in the Derby from four rides came when second on Stoute's Tartan Bearer in 2008, added: "He travelled very smoothly and when the gap opened up he really quickened.
"He was in front sooner than I wanted for a horse having just the third run of his life and I had to keep him up to his work.
"He has just improved from the Dante. He is a very laid-back horse and he needed the Dante to wake him up. He has quickened like a great horse and it is really important for me to win this. Time will tell how good he is, but today he put in a great performance."
Stoute had to a abandon plans for a 2000 Guineas bid after Workforce was slow to come to hand in the spring, and elected instead for a racecourse at gallop at Lingfield last week.
twilight Stamping Rings His patient approach paid handsome dividends as Workforce provided him with a fifth Derby success following on from Shergar (1981), Shahrastani (1986), Kris Kin (2003) and North Light (2004).
The son of King's Best also demolished the statistic of no horse being beaten in the Dante winning the Derby, while he also shaved a second off Lammtarra's course record replica clothing of 2min 32.3sec set in 1995.
Stoute said: "Winning the Derby seems to get sweeter and sweeter and that was a very, very exhilarating display.
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