England striker Wayne Rooney has enjoyed success in his colours for the first time as a racehorse owner with Pippy winning at Wolverhampton.
The Exceed And Excel colt, who Rooney owns with wife Coleen, was last of the four runners for most of the seven-furlong (1400m) contest but found a good turn of foot in the final stages to score by a head from 6-4 favourite Royal Steps.
Pippy is one of three horses Rooney owns at the stable belonging to his former Manchester United team-mate Michael Owen and the first to win.
The Tom Dascombe-trained two-year-old, who cost 26,000 guineas, had run four times before the Wolverhampton race, finishing second on an earlier occasion.
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