Dwyer ends losing sequence in style with 77-1 Yarmouth double

CHRIS DWYER broke an unwanted losing sequence in style with a 77-1 double at Yarmouth yesterday.

Dwyer ends losing sequence in style with 77-1 Yarmouth double

The Newmarket trainer started the day having been without a winner for 45 days.

But with a quintet of runners in action at the seaside track, he had high hopes that a change in fortune was around the corner.

And the optimism proved well founded when March For Liberty and Willhewiz both landed the spoils with the same front-running tactics.

The wins also ended a spell of more than three years since Dwyer last struck at Yarmouth.

"It has been a long time so long that I can't remember when my last winner was and I am delighted," said Dwyer, after seeing 25-1 shot March For Liberty make all in the Norfolk Afloat Selling Nursery Handicap.

The double was completed when 2-1 favourite Willhewiz appreciated the drop in class of the Elm Contracting Premier Claiming Stakes.

"It's a long old winter and days like today make the work worthwhile," said Dwyer.

However there was a disappointing sting in the tail for the trainer as Willhewiz was claimed to join Kevin Ryan after the race.

Leading jockeys Frankie Dettori and Kieren Fallon both got on the scoresheet on the afternoon, as well as participating in a riders' protest about the newly-introduced restrictions upon their use of mobile phones.

In what is quickly becoming a usual sight, the riders marched as a group outside the perimeters of the racecourse after the first race in order to use their phones en masse.

"I went outside to check my messages and I have already had to do it twice today," said spokesman Philip Robinson.

"I will be continuing to do it every day until it is sorted."

Dettori had started the afternoon in the right way when 8-11 favourite Doctrine took the opening EBF Maiden Stakes.

Chris Richardson, the managing director of the filly's owners Cheveley Park Stud, said: "She improved to win today and I am optimistic that she will improve again.

"Her trainer (John Gosden) has entered in a Group Three race at Longchamp on Sunday week and we might want to take that option.

"She is a nice filly one of several that we are lucky enough to have at the moment."

Richardson expanded upon the latest news concerning two of his "nice fillies".

"Russian Rhythm is looking extremely well and has been enjoying a little holiday," Richardson reported.

"I am still not quite sure where she is going to be going. She has got several entries and it is probably going to be a question of ground for her - she wouldn't want it too quick.

"Chorist (a half-sister to Doctrine) found a mile and a half too far at York and she will step back to 10 furlongs now."

Word on the racecourse was good for Golden Empire in the betfair.com Maiden Stakes, but the Ed Dunlop-trained colt found one too good in the shape of Top Romance.

The Michael Stoute-trained filly came with a late run under Fallon to score by a length and a quarter. And the champion completed a double when Arzoo came up the stands' rail to deny Fiveoclock Express in the Anglia Television Classified Stakes.

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