Ebor: Moral Diamond shines in York showpiece for William Buick and Willie Mullins | Racing Information

Moral Diamond supplied all-conquering coach Willie Mullins with a 3rd victory within the Sky Wager Ebor at York.

Though higher recognized for his exploits underneath Nationwide Hunt guidelines, the Closutton handler had beforehand landed Britain’s richest Flat handicap with Sesenta in 2009 and Absurde in 2023 and fired a three-pronged assault at this yr’s renewal.

Moral Diamond, who was final seen placing Royal Ascot gold within the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes, was a effectively backed 5-1 favorite for the £500,000 function underneath William Buick, who appeared eager to play his playing cards as late as doable aboard a horse who has been recognized to race enthusiastically.

However after once more travelling powerfully in the course of the pack as the sector turned for dwelling, the five-year-old bought a dream run towards the stands’ rail when being delivered together with his problem and picked up effectively to expire an emphatic two-and-a-half-length winner over Ascending, with Queenstown in third.

Mullins mentioned: “William mentioned he was a copybook experience. He popped off, settled and did every little thing he needed him to do.

“He mentioned as soon as he let him go, he quickened up effectively.

“He will not go to [the] Melbourne [Cup] as he will not move the vets down there in Australia, so we wiped that off right away. He is bought a screw in his leg from an previous damage and that may be a straight no-no from them.

“That is wonderful, these are the principles and at the very least we all know now and never once they allow us to get all the best way down there.

“I do not know if he is an Irish Cesarewitch horse or we let him run in an Irish Leger, we’ll need to see however I might positively like to maneuver him up in grade to a Group Two or a Group Three at some stage.

“We have simply been looking for the correct techniques that swimsuit him nevertheless it’s taken me 18 months to try this and now he is received at Royal Ascot and the Ebor.

“Now that we’ve a approach to experience him, he’d in all probability win a pleasant race over hurdles, I feel techniques have been the making of him.”

Of touchdown a serious summer season prize, Mullins added: “Profitable races on the Flat like this provides me precisely the identical buzz as profitable large races over jumps, for positive. To come back right here and win races like this, it is why you do the sport.”

Buick mentioned: “He received the Duke of Edinburgh so effectively and any time Willie asks you to experience a horse, you are grateful for the call-up – they do not come over for the enjoyable of it.

“I had an excellent journey from a large draw. We have been by no means going to battle to get in or do something spectacular, we accepted it. Willie simply mentioned keep on the market and let him get in his rhythm and in case you get a tail to observe then nice.

“I used to be comfy all through the entire race actually and he is bought that killer flip of foot which set him other than the others at the moment.”

It was a one-two-three for Eire with Henry de Bromhead coaching the runner-up Ascending and Aidan O’Brien saddling third-placed Queenstown.

De Bromhead mentioned of his runner: “I might say he simply lacked a little bit of pace late on, I believed he’d quicken a bit higher.

“Seamie gave him a brilliant experience and I believed we have been going higher than something however the different lad quickened previous him.

“He gave me my first Ascot winner, we’re delighted to be right here, we have had a extremely good day and he is ran an absolute belter.”