New photo Ayr Gold Cup dead heat as Son of Rest trainer Fozzy Stack lays into Brexit

The £200,000 William Hill Ayr Gold Cup needed something special to erase the bad memories and embarrassment of 2017's waterlogged, abandoned edition and it got it in spades.

The first dead heat, which took more than seven minutes to be decided, in a historic race first run in 1804; the first Irish trained winner and the first time a winning trainer has used the winner's podium after Scotland's biggest Flat race to make a political point.

The 2018 Ayr Gold Cup had it all.

The £200,000 William Hill Ayr Gold Cup ended in a dead heat on Saturday

Honours were shared between 5-1 favourite Son of Rest, ridden by Chris Hayes and trained in County Tipperary by Fozzy Stack, and 28-1 shot Baron Bolt, trained in Berkshire by Paul Cole and ridden by 20-year-old Preston-born apprentice Cameron Noble who was having his first ride at the track and achieving by far the biggest win of his embryonic career.

Neither jockey was sure of the result with the more experienced Hayes, fearing he was 'a nostril from a P45' after his mount Son of Rest had hit the front far sooner than planned.

For Stack, 38, whose father Tommy partnered Red Rum to his historic third Grand National win in 1977 and partnered many winners around Ayr as one of the sport's best known jump jockeys, the overwhelming feeling when the result was announced was one of relief.

His runner had headed the betting in the build-up after finishing second in the Group One Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh six days earlier But he also took the opportunity to air a serious point. How will Brexit effect the transport of bloodstock between two neighbouring countries if hard borders are implemented and more stringent custom controls imposed?

Stack said: 'Son Of Rest had not done much all week at home and we were hoping and praying he was in good shape.

'It's a very prestigious race and I believe he is the first Irish winner. It's great to be a small part of history.

'He didn't get a lead long enough and kicked clear. I thought we were beat. The other horse got past us and probably went a neck up but we were getting back at the line.

'He ran a great race last weekend but I was bit worried after travelling 11 hours to get here. There is one thing I want to day about all this rubbish that is going in this country about Brexit.

'This horse left the Republic of Ireland, went into Northern Ireland, who voted against Brexit, and went into Scotland, who voted against Brexit.

'In six months' time, will we be here? It took 11 hours door to door and it will be a lot more hassle in future if there border points wherever they put them.

'Everybody needs to get their heads together. People need to think about these things.'

For such a competitive race on paper, Son of Rest and Baron Bolt were decisive joint-winners.

It was even between Son of Rest (left) ridden by Chris Hayes and Baron Bolt ridden by Cameron Noble

It was four-lengths back to third Flying Pursuit, whose jockey Rachel Richardson was attempting to become the first female jockey to win the Ayr Gold Cup.

Her mount blazed a trail but was undone by a low draw in stall 3 which was ultimately impossible to overcome as the high stalls on the stands' side proved the placed to be.

The next lowest drawn in the first six home was fourth-placed Get Knotted out of stall 16.

The soft Ayr ground helped 11-1 shot Snazzy Jazzy rediscover his useful two-year-old form as he held off the late thrust of favourite Al Qahwa by a length and half in the William Hill Silver Cup.

The winner, trained in Lambourn by Clive Cox, hit the front over a furlong out and never looked like being pegged back.

Unbeaten as a juvenile in three runs, Snazzy Jazzy had concluded his first season racing by lifting the £150,000 first prize in a valuable race at the Curragh run on heavy ground.

But the faster going during the dry summer had not played to Snazzy Jazzy's strengths and he had failed to be competitive in four races.

For winning jockey, 22-year-old Sussex-born Crouch who rode Snazzy Jazzy when the colt won on his Goodwood debut in July last year, success in the Silver Cup was his biggest win on only his fourth ride at the track.

Crouch, on course for his best ever season, said: 'It's nice to get a big win for Clive and get the horse back on track too as he was a nice two-year-old. He has been a bit hit and miss this year.

'I was a bit swept off my feet early but it suited him. He is a horse which probably likes six and a half or seven furlongs so the strong gallop and testing ground suited him.

The Group Three Firth of Clyde Stakes was win by Joe Fanning-ridden Queen of Bermuda, trained by William Haggas, whose one-time Derby hope Young Rascal made a winning comeback at Newbury.

Appropriately, given last year's issues, the opening race won by Richard Kingscote-ridden Iconic Choice was run in a heavy shower but the blues skies over Ayr overall always held sway.

The sun shone on the Ayr Gold Cup in front of a crowd whose loyalty and patience had been tested 12 months earlier.

That was the result the course executive wanted most.

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