Sergeant takes command

Devon trainer Rod Millman and jockey Alan Munro have built up a highly-successful partnership this season and they plundered their biggest prize to date when Sergeant Cecil ran out a convincing winner of the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate at Newcastle today.

Sergeant takes command
Sat, 25 Jun, 2005 - 19:06

Devon trainer Rod Millman and jockey Alan Munro have built up a highly-successful partnership this season and they plundered their biggest prize to date when Sergeant Cecil ran out a convincing winner of the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate at Newcastle today.

Munro, best known for his victory on Generous in the 1991 Derby, subsequently left Britain to pursue a career in the Far East.

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