Joint-favourite’s owners are living the dream in a multi-million pound business with little room for sentiment or romance
Racing at the highest level is multi-million pound business with little room for sentiment or romance. But for as long as there are horses such as Pyledriver, the joint-favourite for Saturday’s St Leger at Doncaster, there will always be moments when it feels like a sport again.
There are so many strands to Pyledriver’s story it is difficult to know where to start. The first foal of a dam was bought to go jumping, his unfashionable pedigree left the buyers cold at Tattersalls in 2017 and the three friends who bred him bought him back for only 10,000gns. He ended up as one of around two dozen horses in training at William Muir’s stable near Hungerford, and when he went to the races for the first time, Pyledriver set off as a 50-1 shot.
Written by Greg Wood at Doncaster
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/11/pyledriver-the-peoples-horse-aims-to-realise-classic-dream-in-st-leger-horse-racing under the title “
“. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
