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The corks were popping for trainer Andrew Balding and jockey Oisin Murphy on Wednesday night after Alcohol Free impressively cut down 11-8 favourite Poetic Flare to land Qatar Sussex Stakes.
It was a first win for a filly in the one-mile feature race of Glorious Goodwood since Soviet Song in 2004 and the first success for a three-year-old filly since Marling in 1992.
Balding reckons his 7-2 shot, who is now a three-time Group One winner having also landed the Cheveley Park Stakes last season and the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot in June, is special.
Trainer Andrew Balding and jockey Oisin Murphy were celebrating after Alcohol Free's victory
She is providing mounting evidence to back that up after her length-and-three-quarter win from the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner.
Murphy wanted to play Alcohol Free late after she was left in front too soon when
