Racing: Hannon is rewarded by Pride: The leading trainer carries all before him across the Continent to earn pounds 157,000 in five minutes

FOR five minutes yesterday, Richard Hannon was on Duke Of Westminster wages. While the Wiltshire trainer's Pips Pride was still panting following his pounds 87,000 victory in the Heinz 57 Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown, Hannon's Mr Brooks earned a further pounds 70,000 in Europe's most valuable Group Three race, in Berlin.

Space had been made at East Everleigh Stables for a trophy from Ireland, though the horse that was expected to fill it was Pips Pride's stablemate, the favourite Son Pardo. The Richmond Stakes winner, who finished seventh, was virtually a loser from the outset, however, on an afternoon when the draw had the significance of a saloon shoot-out.

The telling moment of the race came just after the start, when the field splintered into two groups and left Lanfranco Dettori, Pips Pride's jockey, with a simple alternative.

'I got a bit of a shock when they went right and left of me,' Dettori, who was riding at Leopardstown for the first time, said. 'But I quickly realised I would have to go one way, and decided to go left because I thought Paul Cole's Splendent (who finished fifth) was the horse to beat.'

The ones who ultimately provided challenges in a blanket finish to Ireland's first juvenile Group One contest of the season were the placed horses, Shahik and Guy Harwood's Darbonne, who was ridden by Willie Carson.

Hannon explained that Pips Pride was a more relaxed animal than the one that dribbled home in the Richmond Stakes. 'Pips Pride loves to get out and bowl along,' he said 'They didn't go fast at Goodwood, he pulled hard and gave himself no real chance.

'This time he was drawn on the right side and Frankie let him stride on, but I think Son Pardo will bounce back after this effort because he was simply on the wrong side of the track. John Reid did not have to be hard on him when it was obvious the other group were well ahead, and I think you will see his real form when he goes for the Gimcrack at York.'

Mr Brooks's next appointment is also expected in the north following his victory in the Grosser Preis Von Berlin at Hoppegarten. The Haydock Sprint Cup and then possibly the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp are on the agenda for the horse who was recording his second successive Group success in the hands of Lester Piggott.

Other British representatives on the Continent over the weekend found success rather more elusive. Peter Chapple-Hyam's Feminine Wiles was sixth behind Palomelle in the Group Three Prix de Psyche at Deauville on Saturday, while the best of three challengers for yesterday's Prix de Pomone, another Group Three event at the seaside course, was Henry Candy's Always Friendly, the mount of Alan Munro, who finished third to Magic Night.

Mohammed Moubarak's Magnificent Star was seventh on her seasonal debut while the Henry Cecil-trained Miss Plum faded into eighth having set the pace.

Magic Night, who was runner-up to Suave Dancer in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last year before occupying a similar position in the Japan Cup, again has Longchamp as her target and may have a sighter in the Prix Foy next month.

There was little good fortune for a British 'old boy', Quest For Fame, either. The 1990 Derby winner, who is now with Bobby Frankel in the United States, finished sixth behind Fraise on his East Coast debut at Saratoga in the Sword Dancer Handicap.

Pat Eddery, the man at the controls when Quest For Fame was victorious at Epsom, had similarly little to celebrate. While the Irishman was on duty for Khalid Abdullah in France on Saturday his main rival in the jockeys' championship, Michael Roberts rode six winners in a day for the first time in his life.

After afternoon wins on Mamdooh, Our Occasion and Amwag at Newmarket, the South African recorded another treble via Yenoora, Lys and Five Islands at Lingfield's evening meeting and is now just three short of 150 for the season, 22 ahead of Eddery.

LEOPARDSTOWN

3.55: (6f Heinz 57 Phoenix Stakes, 2yo)

1. PIPS PRIDE chestnut colt Efisio - Elkie Brooks. . . . . . . . L Dettori 10-1

2. Shahik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Craine 14-1

3. Darbonne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W Carson 10-1

9 ran. 2-1 fav Son Pardo. 3/4 , neck. (R Hannon, Marlborough). Tote: pounds 22.60; pounds 8.40, pounds 4.10, pounds 5.20. DF: pounds 182.30. CSF: pounds 120.25.

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