Hawk Wing destroys Lockinge rivals

Hawk Wing returned to his brilliant best with a superb all-the-way win in the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury today.

The 2-1 favourite, trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Michael Kinane, won by 11 lengths – a record for the Group One race over the straight mile.

Where Or When (7-2) was a distant second with Olden Times third. Only six ran as Duck Row was a non-runner and Desert Deer refused to go into the stalls.

With Mark Johnston's front-runner out of the contest, Kinane immediately took Hawk Wing to the head of affairs in the centre of the course.

He was tracked by his main market rivals, the French-trained Domedriver and Where Or When, who had beaten Hawk Wing in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot last year.

But when Kinane asked the four-year-old to lengthen over two furlongs out, nothing could go with him.

He pulled further and further away and his time for the mile, even on rain-softened ground, was just one second outside the course record.