Charpy at the double as Furia strikes in Group 2 contest

The Group 2 second round of the 1m1½f Al Maktoum Challenge was the highlight of the fifth meeting of the carnival and, just as the rain arrived, it went the way of the Erwan Charpy-trained Furia Cruzada, making her local debut.

A multiple Group 1 winner in her native South America, she showed good form on turf and the all-weather for John Gosden last year but was winning for the first time since May 2015, clearly relishing the return to dirt.

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