Complex sentence: Mick Fitzgerald took the ride to be the first favourite to win the race for fourteen years however the race was most notable for a prolonged stewards enquiry into the possibility that the winner had crossed the runner up Encore Un Peu on the run in.
Split into simpler sentences: Mick Fitzgerald took the ride to be the first favourite to win the race for fourteen years. However the race was most notable for a prolonged stewards enquiry into the possibility that the winner had crossed the runner up Encore Un Peu on the run in.