CONNECTIONS of Illustrious Blue will do a lot of soul-searching over the next few days about whether to enter the Goodwood Cup winner for the Melbourne Cup.

Scottish trainer Andrew Crow has been warned off for seven years and fined £5,000 by the British Horseracing Authority.

According To John extended his unbeaten record to six with a convincing performance in the Paris Pike Novices’ Chase at Kelso.

Andrew Crow trains just five miles away from Kelso racecourse and he realised an ambition when Witch Wind ran out a game winner of the Eric Gillie 60th Birthday Novices’ Handicap Hurdle in the hands of amateur Mark Ellwood.