Sergeant in command
Sergeant Cecil landed a popular victory in the GNER Doncaster Cup at York.
The seven-year-old, trained by Rod Millman, got the better of the veteran Alcazar to follow up his Lonsdale Cup victory at the Ebor meeting last month.
Frankie Dettori took the even-money favourite into the lead around two furlongs out and kept on strongly to take the Group Two contest over a stamina-sapping two-and-a-quarter miles by a length, with Baddam two and a half lengths away in third.
A stewards’ inquiry was called as Sergeant Cecil and Alcazar came close in the closing stages.
