OFF The Record is likely to swerve the William Hill Great St Wilfrid Stakes at Ripon on Saturday because of the prospect of rain-softened ground.

Cheshire trainer Mick Mullineaux sent Methaaly on a reconnaissance mission to Ayr and it paid off when the five-year-old won the Giles Insurance Corporate Handicap.

Excusez Moi ended a long losing run when finally coming good for Australian ace Kerrin McEvoy in the £60,000 (€88,000) William Hill Great St Wilfrid Stakes at Ripon.

British trainer Clive Cox realised one of his ambitions when he won the Northern Rock Gosforth Park Cup with Out After Dark at Newcastle this evening.