Doncaster Saturday Review: John Gosden Wins Record 6th November Handicap
By Harry DeCosemo, Sports Reporter
November 12, 2018
Trainer John Gosden has enjoyed an excellent Flat season crowned with Enable’s Breeders’ Cup win last weekend and the Newmarket handler ended the campaign in the best possible way by taking the final major Turf handicap of 2018 with the promising Royal Line.
Sent off a very generous 9-1 chance to take 1m 4f Marathonbet November Handicap the mount of Robert Havlin outclassed his 22 rivals in a race where the result was never really in much doubt from some way out.
The lightly-raced son of Dubawi looked a potential pattern horse when easily winning Epsom’s Great Metropolitan Handicap back in April since when the four-year-old has been waiting for his preferred soft ground, the rain which fell on Town Moor on Saturday morning coming at just the right time.
Always travelling well under Havlin, who was riding Royal Line for the first time, the pair took up the running approaching the last two furlongs from which point the valuable handicap was over as a competitive contest, the Hughie Morrison-trained Not So Sleepy running on to finish a never-nearer second.
Trainer John Gosden has enjoyed an excellent Flat season crowned with Enable’s Breeders’ Cup win last weekend and the Newmarket handler ended the campaign in the best possible way by taking the final major Turf handicap of 2018 with the promising Royal Line.
Sent off a very generous 9-1 chance to take 1m 4f Marathonbet November Handicap the mount of Robert Havlin outclassed his 22 rivals in a race where the result was never really in much doubt from some way out.
The lightly-raced son of Dubawi looked a potential pattern horse when easily winning Epsom’s Great Metropolitan Handicap back in April since when the four-year-old has been waiting for his preferred soft ground, the rain which fell on Town Moor on Saturday morning coming at just the right time.
Always travelling well under Havlin, who was riding Royal Line for the first time, the pair took up the running approaching the last two furlongs from which point the valuable handicap was over as a competitive contest, the Hughie Morrison-trained Not So Sleepy running on to finish a never-nearer second.
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