Donald McCain celebrates biggest Flat victory in Northumberland Plate

• Eddie Ahern excels on 14-1 shot from unfavoured outside draw • Tactic shocks odds-on shot Beauty in Curragh highlight Trainer Donald McCain, who is making quite a name for himself over jumps, won his biggest prize on the Flat when Overturn won the £175,000 Northumberland Plate at Newcastle – but missed the celebrations as he was stuck on the M6 with a punctured tyre. Confident of his mount’s stamina, Eddie Ahern took 14-1 chance Overturn across from draw 21 in an unfavoured outside stall into an early lead and kept up a relentless gallop to score by 2¾ lengths from Drunken Sailor who finished well having had a troubled run in the long home straight. McCain explained: “We had a tyre blow-out on the M6 and we rang any number of garages trying to get a new tyre for a Maserati but failed. We managed to hear the race commentary over the phone in the end and the car had to be brought back on the back of a truck.

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