Yorkshire's John Quinn proved right after latest Signora Cabello triumph

By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Jul 2018, 00:01 BST
Updated 23rd Jul 2018, 00:57 BST
Yorkshire trainer John Quinn. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe/PAYorkshire trainer John Quinn. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe/PA
Yorkshire trainer John Quinn. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe/PA
ROYAL ASCOT heroine Signora Cabello vindicated North Yorkshire trainer John Quinn by landing the Group Two Darley Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte.

Settrington-based Quinn opted for this test rather than Saturday’s Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury and the two-year-old dug deep to secure the win.

Ridden by Frankie Dettori, the Queen Mary Stakes winner passed the post first just ahead of the previously unbeaten Sexy Metro.

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Robert Cowell’s Pocket Dynamo took the five-strong field along with Signora Cabello close up and the other three horses tightly-grouped.

Signora Cabello hit the front in the final furlong and kept on gamely to hold Sexy Metro by a neck. True Mason, trained at Leyburn by Karl Burke, was three-quarters of a length away in third.

On a good day for Yorkshire’s international raiders, there was success for the Burke team when Havana Grey returned to his best form to land the Group Two Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh under PJ McDonald.