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The rags-to-riches story of Highfield Princess is complete after she stormed to a two-and-a-half-length win in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York, prompting trainer John Quinn to say victory was ‘better than winning the lottery’.
Landing a career-first Group One success 12 days earlier in the six-and-a-half-furlong Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville had been special for the Jason Hart-ridden mare trained 20 miles from the track at Malton.
After all, this was a mare beaten off a handicap rating of 57 on her first try in a handicap in a modest event at Doncaster in August 2020.
Highfield Princess completed her rags-to-riches story by winning the Nunthorpe Stakes
Jockey Jason Hart (red cap) rode the mare to a two-and-a-half-length win in York on Friday
But to come out on top on only the second try in her 29-race career at five furlongs — and arguably over the fastest speed test in British racing — was something else for a horse whose
