Ayr Gold Cup ends in dead heat for the first time ever before Son of 残り／休憩（する） trainer Fozzy Stack lays into Brexit

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The £200,000 William Hill Ayr Gold Cup needed something special to erase the bad memories and 当惑 of 2017's waterlogged, abandoned 版 and it got it in spades.

The first dead heat, which took more than seven minutes to be decided, in a historic race first run in 1804; the first Irish trained 勝利者 and the first time a winning trainer has used the 勝利者's podium after Scotland's biggest Flat race to make a political point. The 2018 Ayr Gold Cup had it all.

Honours were 株d between 5-1 favourite Son of 残り／休憩（する）, ridden by Chris Hayes and trained in 郡 Tipperary by Fozzy Stack, and 28-1 発射 Baron Bolt, trained in Berkshire by Paul Cole and ridden by 20-year-old Preston-born 見習い工 Cameron Noble, who was having his first ride at the 跡をつける and 達成するing by far the biggest 勝利，勝つ of his embryonic career.?

Neither (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手 was sure of the result with the more experienced Hayes, 恐れるing he was 'a nostril from a P45' after his 開始する Son of 残り／休憩（する） had 攻撃する，衝突する the 前線 far sooner than planned.

For Stack, 38, whose father Tommy partnered Red Rum to his historic third Grand 国家の 勝利，勝つ in 1977 and partnered many 勝利者s around Ayr as one of the sport's best known jump (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手s, the 圧倒的な feeling when the result was 発表するd was one of 救済.

His 走者 had 長，率いるd the betting in the build-up after finishing second in the Group One 飛行機で行くing Five 火刑／賭けるs at the Curragh six days earlier, but he also took the 適切な時期 to 空気／公表する a serious point: how will Brexit 影響 the 輸送（する） of bloodstock between two 隣人ing countries if hard 国境s are 器具／実施するd and more stringent custom 支配（する）／統制するs 課すd?

Stack said: 'Son Of 残り／休憩（する） had not done much all week at home and we were hoping and praying he was in good 形態／調整.

'It's a very prestigious race and I believe he is the first Irish 勝利者. It's 広大な／多数の／重要な to be a small part of history.

'He didn't get a lead long enough and kicked （疑いを）晴らす. I thought we were （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域. The other horse got past us and probably went a neck up but we were getting 支援する at the line.

'He ran a 広大な／多数の／重要な race last 週末 but I was bit worried after travelling 11 hours to get here. There is one thing I want to day about all this rubbish that is going in this country about Brexit.

'This horse left the 共和国 of Ireland, went into Northern Ireland, who 投票（する）d against Brexit, and went into Scotland, who 投票（する）d against Brexit.

'In six months' time, will we be here? It took 11 hours door to door and it will be a lot more hassle in 未来 if there 国境 points wherever they put them.

'Everybody needs to get their 長，率いるs toge ther. People need to think about these things.'

For such a 競争の激しい race on paper, Son of 残り／休憩（する） and Baron Bolt were 決定的な 共同の-勝利者s.

It was four-lengths 支援する to third 飛行機で行くing 追跡, whose (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手 Rachel Richardson was 試みる／企てるing to become the first 女性（の） (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手 to 勝利，勝つ the Ayr Gold Cup.

Her 開始する 炎d a 追跡する but was undone by a low draw in 立ち往生させる 3 which was 最終的に impossible to 打ち勝つ as the high 立ち往生させるs on the stands' 味方する 証明するd the placed to be.

The next lowest drawn in the first six home was fourth-placed Get Knotted out of 立ち往生させる 16.

The soft Ayr ground helped 11-1 発射 Snazzy Jazzy rediscover his useful two-year-old form as he held off the late thrust of favourite Al Qahwa by a length and half in the William Hill Silver Cup.

The 勝利者, trained in Lambourn by Clive Cox, 攻撃する，衝突する the 前線 over a furlong out and never looked like 存在 pegged 支援する.

Unbeaten as a juveni le in three runs, Snazzy Jazzy had 結論するd his first season racing by 解除するing the £150,000 first prize in a 価値のある race at the Curragh run on 激しい ground.

But the faster going during the 乾燥した，日照りの summer had not played to Snazzy Jazzy's strengths and he had failed to be 競争の激しい in four races.

For winning (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手, 22-year-old Sussex-born Crouch who 棒 Snazzy Jazzy when the colt won on his Goodwood debut in July last year, success in the Silver Cup was his biggest 勝利，勝つ on only his fourth ride at the 跡をつける.

Crouch, on course for his best ever season, said: 'It's nice to get a big 勝利，勝つ for Clive and get the horse 支援する on 跡をつける too as he was a nice two-year-old. He has been a bit 攻撃する，衝突する and 行方不明になる this year.

'I was a bit swept off my feet 早期に but it ふさわしい him. He is a horse which probably likes six and a half or seven furlongs so the strong gallop and 実験（する）ing ground ふさわしい him.

The Group Three Firth of Clyde 火刑／賭けるs was 勝利，勝つ by Joe Fanning-ridden Queen of Bermuda, trained by William Haggas, whose one-time Derby hope Young Rascal made a winning 復帰 at Newbury.

適切な, given last year's 問題／発行するs, the 開始 race won by Richard Kingscote-ridden Iconic Choice was run in a 激しい にわか雨 but the blues skies over Ayr 全体にわたる always held sway.

The sun shone on the Ayr Gold Cup in 前線 of a （人が）群がる whose 忠義 and patience had been 実験（する）d 12 months earlier. That was the result the course (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 手配中の，お尋ね者 most.