LOVING THE AMBIENTE
The Sunday Mirror|June 30, 2024
Friendly is 'chilled' and ready to fire
DAVID YATES
LOVING THE AMBIENTE

HIS Derby defeat “made a man” of Ambiente Friendly, who bids to justify his hot-favourite status by going one better in the Irish version at the Curragh this afternoon.

It was feared a knife-edge temperament would prevent the James Fanshawe-trained colt, a four-and-a-half-length victor of Lingfield's Listed Derby Trial, from doing himself justice at Epsom.

But Ambiente Friendly, owned by 91-year-old Bill Gredley and his son Tim, kept his head amid the famous Derby-day atmosphere to finish second to favourite City Of Troy.

The winner runs in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday, so Ambiente Friendly's chief threat comes from City Of Troy's stablemate, Aidan O'Brien's Derby third Los Angeles.

This story is from the June 30, 2024 edition of The Sunday Mirror.

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