From a stud farm in South Africa to the winners’ enclosure on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile with a 10-year stint as an airline pilot along the way, Dylan Cunha has enjoyed one of the more unconventional racing journeys and it scaled a new peak on Friday as Prague, the third-favourite of four runners, gave the trainer a first British Group Two success in the £125,000 Joel Stakes.
The £71,000 first prize for Prague’s latest win alone represents a huge return on the £10,000 that Cunha paid for the colt – a son of Galileo, no less – as an unraced three-year-old reject from the all-powerful Coolmore Stud operation last October.
