Long-distance traveller gives Fahey first winner at Welsh track

Britain's newest racecourse is handy for the trainers of Wales but for Richard Fahey it represents one of the most remote tracks he will compete at.

So there was plenty at stake when Middleham Park Racing manager Tom Palin persuaded the trainer to send two horses on the 520-mile round trip from Yorkshire to west Wales.

Palin himself was prepared to undertake the drive from Manchester to Ffos Las, where he was joined by one other intrepid owner who travelled from Southend, and was happy to come away with a nursery win for Ventura Dragon after the odds-on Indomeneo was beaten into second in the novice stakes.