Connections Thrilled After Washington´s Guineas Success

John Magnier and Michael Tabor, two of the owners of George Washington besides Derrick Smith, both paid tribute to the Danehill colt after his stunning success in the Stan James 2000 Guineas.

Magnier said: 'Just listening to people, I think they were pretty impressed.

'We´ve always known that he was a brilliant horse; it´s just for everything to go right on the day, which it did.

'If we´re not delighted after that, we shouldn´t be in the game at all.

'They´ve always thought a lot of him - right from the word go.'

As for the future, Magnier added: 'All the options are open. It looked like if he (Kieren Fallon) had held on to him a bit longer, he´d have won further, I guess.'

Tabor said: 'I´m just a little bit in awe. My impressions of him are, what we always thought he was - a very special horse 'He did it on the track today as he did as a two-year-old. It was what we always expected but sometimes you don´t get what you expect in this game. I am absolutely thrilled.'

Successful jockey Kieren Fallon said: 'I was hoping he´d take me further - at least until the two-furlong marker.

'But you disappoint horses if you sit there too long. I´m very thrilled...relieved would be a better word, I think!'