Australia's 'electric' Asfoora surges to York win

Australia's Asfoora surged clear to triumph nan Nunthorpe Stakes connected time 3 of nan Ebor gathering astatine York.

The seven-year-old mare, trained by Henry Dwyer and ridden by champion jockey Oisin Murphy, followed nan early gait group by Karl Burke's Night Raider.

With conscionable complete a furlong to go, Asfoora powered distant to decorativeness a magnitude and a 4th clear of Kevin Ryan's 100-1 outsider Ain't Nobody and William Knight's Frost At Dawn, who was third. Night Raider took fourth.

"It was perfect. She sewage a bully tally [into nan race] from Night Raider and I allowed her to spell forward," Murphy told ITV Racing.

"She travelled very good and nan way is rather speedy which suits her. She was electric."

It is nan 2nd top-level triumph for Asfoora, who besides triumphed successful nan King Charles III Stakes astatine Royal Ascot past year.