Palace date for Rebel

Geoff Huffer rates Cockney Rebel’s success in the Stan James 2000 Guineas as the “ultimate” victory in his training career.

Huffer, who is in his second stint as a trainer, handled the likes of 1988 St James’s Palace Stakes winner Persian Heights and Derby fourth Ile De Nisky in the past, but he believes Cockney Rebel’s triumph is on a different scale.