‘He was all fire’: brilliant Bacio blasts to Nunthorpe Stakes success at York

Jockey Juan Hernandez dashes to airport after victory ‘He’s just so fast that it doesn’t matter what he runs on’ His name is the Italian for a kiss but there is little delicacy or tenderness about Bacio, the front-running winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes here on Friday. He was headstrong and belligerent on the way to post and simply brutal once the race was under way, tearing down the five-furlong strip without seeing a rival on the way to a one-and-a-quarter length success. Juan Hernandez,…