Excellent Art showed guts and tenacity to edge out Doctor Brown in a memorable finish to the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury.

Dreams of the premier Classic were sparked at Windsor yesterday when The Last Drop showed himself to be a decent middle-distance colt in the making with victory in the Arena Leisure Maiden Stakes.

Mark Wallace has started the new Flat season with a spring in his step as he bids to erase memories of a disastrous 2005 for his Newmarket team.