Fast Deal wins 150-1 odds, giving jockey Alan King his first British victory

Lord Sparky led from the eventual winner after the final fence before looking to go wrong and being pulled up by Ciaran Gethings on the run-in. After being attended to behind green screens, Lord Sparky’s trainer Stuart Edmunds said of the ten-year-old: “He pulled the tendon off his hock.

He’s on the lorry on the way home.”

Fast Deal was last seen finishing third in selling company at Fakenham and was shedding his maiden status at the 46th attempt under the Irish-born King, who was having just his third ride over jumps in Britain. King’s sole previous success had been at Cork in November 2020 on the Seamus Fahey-trained Take All.

“I was based over here and spent a bit of time with Kim Bailey and Paul Nicholls when I was younger,” King told Racing TV. King, who was the 28th different jockey to ride Fast Deal, added: “Michael was wondering if I’d come over and ride during the Easter weekend but my licence wasn’t cleared.

He then said there’s one this weekend at Stratford if I wanted to ride him, and it came off. “It’s not been the best morning, we lost a homebred two-year-old, but luck changes,” said Worsley.

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