Rowan Willis wins derby at Spruce Meadows

It’s taken Rowan Willis a while to get to Spruce Meadows.

And the experience has been exhilarating.

On Sunday, he took a little time across the International Ring, and, afterward, that exhilaration was tenfold.

Willis became the first Australian rider to win the Sun Life Financial derby, with he and his mount Everse W negotiating the challenging track cleanly and incurring just a single time-fault.

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