The right balance needs to be struck when it comes to footballers in racing
It might have been an international break, but one group of Premier League footballers were in the thick of some top-class action on Saturday.
The blue and white colours of Brighton and Hove Albion were sighted on the hallowed turf of Newmarket's Rowley Mile when Seagulls Eleven contested the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes for 11 of the south-coast club's current and former players.
Going up against racing's Champions League owners Godolphin and Coolmore was always going to be tough and so it proved as the Hugo Palmer-trained juvenile finished fourth of five behind Shadow Of Light.
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