GOODWOOD REPORT: Michael Kinane and Dermot Weld re-established an old association as Agnetha took the King George 200th Anniversary Stakes at Goodwood yesterday.
The evergreen Kinane rode numerous big-race winners for Weld in the 1990s, highlights coming with the wins of Go And Go in the Belmont Stakes and Vintage Crop in the Melbourne Cup.
Weld opted to send stable jockey Pat Smullen to ride his representatives at the Galway Festival but was happy to engage Kinane for the ride on his flying filly.
And the pairing landed the Group Three contest in battling fashion, holding the repeated challenge of Rudi's Pet by a short-head.
"I would say that Mick has ridden about 1,200 winners for me over the years, we had 15 years together and they were great times all around the world," said Weld.
Agnetha may now follow a path taken by John Oxx's Namid, who scored at the Curragh before taking the Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc de Triomphe day.
"She is a very talented filly who has a lot of speed. She loves top-of-the-ground and whenever she gets her conditions she runs very well," said Weld.
"There are a lot of options open to us but we will look at the Flying Five at the start of next month and then if we get a dry autumn, the Prix de l'Abbaye."
Earlier Kinane settled an old score when he triumphed on the previously luckless Jardines Lookout in the Group Two JP Morgan Goodwood Cup.
And though this success was less easily gained, it helped wipe out the bad memory of a lengthy ban he had received on the same horse for irresponsible riding of a major nature at York in 2000.
Jardines Lookout, close up in top staying company several times since that controversial disqualification from first place in the Melrose Handicap, finally landed an elusive first Pattern race victory this time.
Having been waited with a long way off the pace, he came through to lead two furlongs out in the two-mile contest to beat Give Notice by a length and a half. Charley Bates earned a 7 to 1 quote for the Tote Ebor (from 12-1) from the sponsors by finishing only three and a half lengths further back in third.
