Sam Hawkens books Australian ticket with Summer strike
Haggas was completing a quick-fire double after landing the opening Glorious Stakes with admirable veteran Al Aasy.
Of Sam Hawkens, he told Racing TV: 'I was pleased with him, he's really improved this year. Sam, our son, bought him last summer online, we didn't really like him much when he came and he ran two pretty ordinary races.
'We gelded him over the winter and he's taken a bit of time, but the horse has really thrived and is obviously in good form and on good terms with himself as he went to Newcastle and won and went to Hamilton and won and he's come for a big race today and won.
'He'll go to Australia I think. We've booked a place in quarantine on September 5 and the race is on October 18, so I think we'll go now.'
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