Lochridge seems to have inherited her family’s trait of improving with age and the daughter of the brilliant Lochsong gained her third success of the season in the Slatch Farm Stud Flying Fillies’ Stakes at Pontefract yesterday.

The wail of sirens and the cries of relatives mixed outside a Moscow hospital today when doctors today began releasing some of the hundreds of people who had been treated there after the Moscow theatre hostage crisis.