JOHN Oxx’s rapidly-improving Alanza (11-4) swooped late to take the Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

HENRY CECIL will give Midday the chance to gain revenge on stablemate Twice Over in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on October 15.

Next year’s Ladbrokes St Leger meeting will be staged at York while Doncaster undergoes a £55m (€81.6m) redevelopment.

Nidhaal proved the undoubted class act at Salisbury as she ran out an impressive winner of the Listed EBF Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes.