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Captions/pullout quotes Sunday, June 3, 2012 I’M THE LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE Mick Channon talks to Peter Thomas about Classic success, a change of tack – and life and death Steve Celtic TheTh Palmer Swing Quueueeenn I spent Tuesday A last hurrah Witnessinttnnessin ssing night looking in France theth rrooyaloyal silkssilks at Porsches recalled bebeineinggm maadede 2 Sunday, June 3, 2012 racingpost.com Racing Post Sunday, June 3, 2012 3 What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given? If you want to keep a secret, don’t tell anybody. Who would play you in a film of your life? ‘Life is gorgeous You’ll be Julia Roberts. What’s your favourite smell? The roses in my garden. If there is one thing you could change so stop whingeing about your life, what would it be? Not to have put my mother through all the worry wanting and heartache since my accident. Which person do you most admire and why? My mother. She brought me up to be a about money strong and independent woman. Sum yourself up in five words Strong, to know independent, happy, humorous, daring. What was the best day of your racing life? Riding Molojec to win at Ascot on all the time’ December 13, 1986. What’s the best bet you’ve ever had? Night Clown at Edinburgh. What is your earliest racing memory? what I Watching John Rickman on ITV 7 when I was around eight years old. If you were taking someone racing for the first time, where would you go and why? I would take them to Fakenham as you can get up close and personal to all had the action. What was the last film you saw? I watch a movie most nights but my favourite movie is Legends of the Fall. What was the last book you read? AP McCoy’s autobiography. for Give us a playlist of your favourite five songs and artists Word On A Wing (David Bowie); Goodbye My Lover (James Blunt); Breakeven (The Script); Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf); Let It Be (The Beatles). breakfast Give us a song you never want to hear again Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler. Who’s your favourite horse ever? There Tell us something about yourself that nice meal with my friends, teaching have been so many but I’m A Driver, Brother only you know I write songs as well my friends’ children to ride. Bronco, Pagan Sun and Badsworth Boy are as poetry although I’m searching for a my favourites. What keeps you awake at night? next . m usician to help me put it all together. T emperature. What would be your specialist subject on Now you all know so it is a secret no What’s your biggest regret? My a ccident, Mastermind? David Bowie. more! but having said that it opened a lot of What is the strangest/funniest thing you What’s your most unappealing habit? other opportunities to me. I’ve done some have ever seen on a racecourse? A loose I sometimes come over as being rather amazing things since, plus of course I have collie got on to the course at Fakenham and brusque. written and had four books published. We give people in racing started to jump the o bstacles. What’s your favourite restaurant/ What’s the worst thing anyone’s said to Who or what really annoys you? People pub for a night out? A Chinese meal you? A lot of people say horrid things but I a weekly grilling . who keep whingeing about money all the s omewhere. rise above it. time instead of focusing on how g orgeous Which race would you most like to Who’d be your four ideal dinner party and precious life is. win/back the winner of? As a lady guests? David Bowie, Brad Pitt, Reginald Today Sharron Murgatroyd, Give us a horse to keep an eye on Puteri jockey I would have liked to have won the D Hunter, Jessie J. Nur Laila. D iamond race. And finally, what did you have for 52, jockey-turned-writer Give us a trainer and a jockey to watch How do you relax away from racing? breakfast this morning? Melon and out for Richard Fahey and Graham Lee. I like art, music, films, daydreaming, a satsumas. From The Vaults The Big Read On Location The Sunday The Story of INSIDE A timely classic ‘Everything has ‘This highly Review the Race report from Alastair changed, gone skilled pool of Matt Chapman says When Celtic Swing TODAY Down on the day into the modern artist artisans Richard Hughes’s justified all the Galileo gave the revealing biography hype in Paris after Coolmore team its age, but racing is small and will make you a dramatic decision first Derby hasn’t’ ageing and look at the to bypass the Derby for 19 years Mick Channon is in there is no sign jockey in Page 15 Page 4 typically forthright of it being a different mood as he speaks to way Peter Thomas replenished’ Page 13 Page 5 Steve Dennis sees the royal silks being made Page 10 4 Sunday, June 3, 2012 racingpost.com ‘He travelled with PRIZE ominous authority CROSSWORD throughout and it 7 was only a matter of 12 when Kinane would go for the gloves’ Across Breakfast at Tiffany’s (6) 3 Listed Galtres Stakes winner for the 7 Country where one can see racing at its Queen, Set To * (5) capital, Doha (5) 6 Rider of Frankel (3,7) 8 Owner of Shahrastani and Kahyasi, 9 Only horse to beat Brigadier Gerard – both winners of 23A (3,4) Chelsea CL architect (7) 12 Drive on, encourage to win (4) HERE have been wider-margin Derby 10 Everton midfielder and one-club man 13 Bargain buy (4) winners but Galileo looked a man (5) 15 Draw level (8) FROM THE VAULTS 11 Position for rider’s strap (4) 16 Newmarket race for two-year-olds, among boys when, barely turning a 12 La Touche Cup winner at Punchestown, * Mile (7) hair, he sauntered home at Epsom * Junior (5) 17 Only trainer in Britain to have trained T yesterday by three and a half of the VINTAGE RACING POST WRITING 14 Rode Inglis Drever to win 2007 over 1,000 winners under both codes (8) Ladbrokes World Hurdle (7) 18 Trainer of Shareef Dancer, 23A winner cosiest Classic-winning lengths you’ll ever see. 16 Gutsy horse – boxer (7) in 1983 (6) 19 First name of chasing legend sired by “He’s some beast, isn’t he?” Aidan O’Brien left which can get his blood up. More wrong you 18 Run of poor form (5) 19 Trainer of Shackleford, Grey Mirage out of Flower Child (6) said to me in the winner’s circle afterwards, and Alastair could not be. there cannot be the slightest doubt about the 2011 Preakness winner, * L Down on To spend time with him is to understand Romans (4) quality of this performance. what the expression ‘driven man’ really means. 21 Kicks upfield – chancy Beaten pointless and prayerless into second wagers (5) Galileo’s He works for an organisation that demands 22 Home of the Fair Grounds place was an undefeated 2,000 Guineas winner, success and it is on those shoulders that the final Racecourse, New * (7) with the race’s only dual Group 1 winner an v ictory in responsibility for delivering it rests. 23 Curragh Classic sponsored honourable but utterly unavailing third. No base by Dubai Duty Free (5,5) the Derby However calmly and politely Aidan carries 24 Sariska’s odds when metal here, just the proper hallmarked stuff. that burden, the fact is that he operates under winning the Irish Oaks in Never worse than fifth, Galileo travelled fiendish pressure from dawn through to long 2009 (5) with ominous authority throughout and it was after dusk. Down merely a question of when Mick Kinane would 1 Winner of the 23A in 1930, elect to go for the gloves. Approaching two out, E HAS learned to be tough, but one of Morny Wing’s six winning rides (4,4) he asked Galileo to go and grab greatness and those for whom he has delivered 2 23A winner in 1984, * Senor the Ballydoyle colt quickened with no more fuss such spectacular success in recent (2,4) than a horse leaving inferior companions behind years should remember that, in 4 Sometime world’s most expensive stallion, maternal on the early-morning gallops. H order for him to go on hitting these grandsire, Secretariat (5,3) The small soup-bowl of a winner’s enclosure sort of heights, they must allow him to retain 5 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile was packed with every member of the the capacity for enjoying the job. winner in 1986 – US author of Coolmore/Ballydoyle clan who ever drew And yesterday, in giving Coolmore its first breath. And why not? With the almost flawlessly Derby for 19 years, O’Brien produced the sort of bred Galileo the winner, and having bought the performance from Galileo that keeps racecourse stud interests of the runner-up Golan as well, it turnstiles clicking round. Win our new book on the is unlikely that John Magnier and his cohorts And to listen to the sort of plans outlined for have ever had a more profitable day’s work. Galileo – the Eclipse, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen’s love of racing And, if you wanted to know what the victory Breeders’ Cup – was to get some inkling of how meant to Magnier, O’Brien and Kinane, you had exceptional they believe this colt may be.