Promising Lead looks set for a successful campaign in Pattern races after making an impressive reappearance in the totepoolscoop6 Special Middleton Stakes at York.

Tony Culhane took the riding honours at Pontefract with a 44-1 double highlighted by Sweet Lilly’s success in the £40,000 (€59,440) Listed totesport.com Silver Tankard Stakes.

ON a night when David Wachman landed his first ever treble, John Oxx ran two in the Group Three Blue Wind Stakes at Cork, the heavily-backed Zarafsha, partnered by Michael Kinane, and Hazarista, ridden by Fran Berry.