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Article: Racing: Sergeant Cecil takes the footslogger's route to dreamland CHAMPIONS' DAY. A horse named for a First World War soldier and a potential Classic star beat the odds
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2005
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Sergeant Cecil, the horse named as a monument to a soldier, proved
himself a valiant warrior without peer here yesterday. With a victory
in the Cesarewitch to follow those in the Northumberland Plate and
Ebor Handicap, the chestnut six-year-old became the first horse in
history to win the season's three top staying handicaps. Such is the
difficulty of the feat that only three before him had even tried; the
last to succeed in the first two legs was Pillo back in 1911.
The story of the gallant gelding has been one of the fairytales of
the year. His exploits have put his stable, that of the small-time
West Country trainer Rod Millman, and his jockey Alan Munro, in his
first season back in ...