RACE REPLAY BELOW ARTICLE
Trainer Charlie Appleby won the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf for the second year in succession as Rebel's Romance struck gold at Keeneland under James Doyle.
It was a ninth Breeders' Cup success for the trainer but a first for jockey James Doyle, who picked up the ride on Rebel's Romance after William Buick chose market leader Nations Pride.
Doyle had to wait for a run but he avoided all the traffic on the inside by coming four or five wide into the home turn, the horse picking up in fine style and motoring down the outside past eventual runner-up Stone Age.
Doyle gave him one crack of the whip and it was all but over, Mishriff running all too late in his swansong race alongside Nations Pride and War Like Goddess for the place money.
Appleby said: "I'm delighted, we're all one big team. James (and me) had his first Guineas winners this year and it's been great to provide him with a first Breeders' Cup winner.
"The horse has turned himself around - I watched him train on the dirt here the other day and I joked that I wished I'd run him in the dirt race.
"Time has obviously helped him, he's another son of Dubawi (Modern Games, Mile winner earlier in the day) and he's continued to develop. The sire does it all, sprinters, milers and mile and a half horses."
Doyle said: "I've come over quite a few times on fancied horses and have been a little bit immature on these tight tracks in the past. By getting used to it coming here over a number of years had helped, it's nice.
"My sister (jockey, Sophie Doyle) has been based here eight years or so now I've been coming with fancied runners and it feels as though I've let her down slightly. But this is great.
"I knew William wasn't 100% convinced (he'd picked the right horse in Nations Pride)."
