Florida Pearl back to his best to win in style

BY any standards, Florida Pearl’s victory in yesterday’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown was an extraordinary performance.

He has been a massive money-spinner , his win prize money alone stands in excess of a million euro, over many honourable campaigns.

But for him to land a fourth Hennessy, at the age of twelve, was final testimony, as if it was needed, to the class horse he has always been.