Rebel’s Romance raises roof with Hardwicke triumph

Globetrotting star Rebel’s Romance belatedly got Charlie Appleby off the mark at Royal this year with a typically determined display in the Hardwicke Stakes.

A dual winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf, a multiple Group One victor in Germany and also successful at the highest level in Dubai and Hong Kong, the seven-year-old secured his biggest victory on home soil to date in last month’s Yorkshire Cup and he was a 6-4 shot to follow up under .

Favourite backers will have had few concerns, with Rebel’s Romance travelling strongly throughout and he found plenty up the straight to score comfortably by a length and three-quarters from Al Riffa, with Ghostwriter third.

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