Ishvana keeps it in the family for O’Briens

Ishvana (20-1) gave Aidan O’Brien a great start to day two of Royal Ascot ahead of So You Think’s victory in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes when winning the Jersey Stakes.

Ishvana keeps it in the family for O’Briens
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 - 01:00
Keith Hamer

The trainer’s apparent second string behind Reply, and owned and bred by his wife Anne-Marie, Ishvana showed her second place in the Irish 1,000 Guineas was no fluke.

She battled on resolutely to hold the fast-finishing Sentaril by a length to give jockey Seamie Heffernan his first ever winner at the Royal meeting.

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CourtsRacingPlace: CurraghPlace: AmericaPlace: Royal AscotPlace: JordanPlace: MusidoraPlace: EpsomPlace: NewmarketPlace: FalmouthPlace: NassauPerson: IshvanaPerson: O’BriensPerson: Aidan O’BrienPerson: Anne-MariePerson: Seamie HeffernanPerson: O’BrienPerson: HeffernanPerson: Johnny MurtaghPerson: David WachmanPerson: Wayne LordanPerson: WachmanPerson: Alan CooperPerson: John GosdenPerson: JovialityPerson: Sheikh MohammedPerson: Princess HayaPerson: William BuickPerson: ChachamaideePerson: GosdenEvent: Prince Of Wales’s StakesEvent: Jersey StakesEvent: GuineasEvent: Sandringham HandicapEvent: Windsor Forest StakesEvent: Falmouth StakesEvent: July CupOrganisation: So You ThinkOrganisation: ReplyOrganisation: Nile
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