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Dylan Thomas won. Yeats lost. Those were the headlines in Thoroughbred racing on Sunday.<\/p>\nDylan Thomas won. Yeats lost. Those were the headlines in Thoroughbred racing on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Irish-bred Dylan Thomas<\/a> The son of Danehill has won six Group 1 races now, including stakes in France, Ireland and Great Britain this year. Trainer Aidan O’Brien said the horse is a potential starter in the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf at Monmouth Park in New Jersey on October 27.<\/p>\n “Dylan Thomas is probably one of the best horses I’ve ridden,” said jockey Kieran Fallon.<\/p>\n “Kieren is a master of his craft, and gave Dylan Thomas a master ride,” said O’Brien, who was winning his first Arc.<\/p>\n Another master of his craft, the Arc champion’s namesake wrote in Fern Hill<\/em>:<\/p>\n And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas also loaned his name to a poet of a later generation, Bob Dylan<\/a>![](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sallyharrison-20&l=ur2&o=1\")
\nWith the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
\nShining, it was Adam and maiden,
\n The sky gathered again
\n And the sun grew round that very day.
\nSo it must have been after the birth of the simple light
\nIn the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
\n Out of the whinnying green stable
\n On to the fields of praise.<\/em><\/p>\n