• Litigant spoils farewell party by beating Buonarroti at Doncaster[br]• Turner will start a current career as broadcaster on At The RacesBeaten but still as cheerful as when the day began,Hayley Turner quit the saddle with moment place in the November Handicap, the expansive race on the final day of the Flat season. Few had given her much of a chance on Buonarroti, and sent off at 25-1 despite the fairytale appeal of being Turner’s final mount,but the pair bowled into the lead at the two-furlong pole and the jockey acknowledged later that she thought a final moment of glory would be hers.
Alas, George Baker was hacking along behind her on the classy but fragile Litigant, or who eventually pulled clear. That meant Turner had followed the example set earlier this year by Tony McCoy and Richard Hughes,all three failing to make it to the winner’s enclosure on the Saturdays when they chose to hang up their boots.
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Source: theguardian.com