Leading jockeys Kieren Fallon and Mick Kinane led the tributes to Jamie Kyne, from Ireland, and Jan Wilson, the two apprentice riders who lost their lives in a fire in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Irish jockey Jamie Kyne, a rising young star in the racing world, was one of two apprentices who died in an arson attack at a block of flats today. his family said tonight.

Conquest is set to bid to become the first sprinter since Coastal Bluff in 1996 to complete the Stewards’ Cup and Ayr Gold Cup double when he lines up in Scotland on Saturday.

Bentong looked a class act when he recorded a narrow but convincing success in the £50,000 (€73,200) Weatherbys Insurance Summer Sprint at Redcar.