QAREEM OF THE CROP!

AL QAREEM gave Clifford Lee a winner on only his second ride back since coming “within less than a millimetre of killing himself” in a motorbike accident.

- BY DAVID YATES

His victory came in the Listed Virgin Bet Goliath Cup Stakes at Musselburgh, when the popular Al Qareem (5-4 fav) showed his usual bravery to hold off the challenge of Mount Atlas by half a length in a stirring finish.

Less than six months ago, Lee was in a coma, having broken his C1 vertebra and suffered an internal bleed that stopped him from breathing. But following a winter of recovery, he returned to the saddle on Marshman at Newcastle on Good Friday.