Picture: Jackson Street (left) gets up under Kyle Strydom to give Dylan Cunha his 50th win in the U.K.
Dylan Cunha had his 50th win in the UK on Tuesday at Newcastle when the Dandy Man three-year-old gelding Jackson Street got up by three-quarters of a length at odds of 5/1 in a six furlong class 6 event, and fittingly the jockey aboard was ex-pat South African Kyle Strydom.
Among Cunha’s wins in his two-and-a-half year U.K. Career has been a lucrative Heritage Handicap victory with Silver Sword at York, he won the first two-year-old race of the season, The Brocklesby, with Zminaiture, and he won the Gr 2 Joel Stakes with £10,000 bargain buy Prague, an Aidan O’Brien chuck out.
The owner of Prague, Amedeo Dal Pos, is a stable employee of the Cunha yard’s, and does all the workriding on Prague, and Amedeo fittingly won a special achievement award for Prague at the glittering ROA awards at the Lancaster Hotel in London tonight (Thusrday) (see picture below)..
Cunha, who won the Summer Cup with Australian-bred Strategic News in 2007 while still in his twenties, started out in the U.K. just over two years ago with just three horses and has had a meteoric rise.
Cunha’s burgeoning fortunes are such that he has been able to send a couple of horses to the Dubai Carnival.
Silver Sword and King’s Call arrived in Dubai earlier this week.
Cunha has at least 50 horses now at his historic Phantom House yard in Newmarket on the famous Fordham Road. He took over the yard from the retired William Jarvis last year.
Below are the overall statistics for Cunha’s training career in the U.K.
