KYOTO — Jockey Katsumi Ando made winning Group 1 races look like shelling peas on Sunday at Kyoto Racecourse, where he won his sixth of the year on 6-year-old Daiwa Major.
The horse finished on strongly enough to win, after muddling the Tennosho race a few weeks back, when he could only manage ninth.
The 24th Mile Championship, with a first-prize purse of ¥100 million, was quite an international affair, with two French jockeys riding, and an Italian-bred horse trained in America and ridden by England's top jockey, Ryan Moore.
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