Troy wins again
NZPA-Reuter Dublin The English Derby winner, Troy, ran away with the £145,000 ($NZ287,000) Irish Derby at The weight h to° expectation’s that 1 he m ° d ’ Willie Carson England’s chainbut recevied a magnificent response from the handsome brown colt when he loosed him two furlongs out, and ran away to a four-length victory over the Irish hope, Dickens Hill.
The easy win confirmed Epsom form, for Sir Michael Sobell’s Troy won there by nine lengths over Dickens Hill. sh o l^ la k“ e ”a2sed''a C surprlTe I by « tie ’ Bohemian Grove into third place, « half beh,nd utcKens iiiii. Troy became the seventh horse to complete the double of English and Irish Derbys, and collected a winning purse of £96,910 ($NZ191,882).
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