John Oxx rectified one anomaly from a distinguished career when Saddler’s Rock delivered his trainer the Artemis Goodwood Cup.

JOHN Oxx’s rapidly-improving Alanza (11-4) swooped late to take the Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

Await The Dawn will be Aidan O’Brien’s main contender for the Juddmonte International at York on Wednesday week.

Ed McMahon is looking forward to giving Temple Meads another chance to open his Pattern-race account in the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

Frankie Dettori came in for a spare ride on Face The Problem in the Skypoker.com Stakes at York and will have known very early it was going to be a winning one.

DAVID Simcock is gearing Bushman for a tilt at the totesport.com Cambridgeshire at Newmarket on October 3.

John Best is hoping to strike lucky with one of his three runners in the toteswinger Sirenia Stakes at Kempton on Saturday.

COVENTRY Stakes winner Art Connoisseur has sustained a leg injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season.

The Juddmonte International will take centre stage at Newmarket on Saturday after the racing industry moved to save a number of key races washed away by the abandonment of the York Ebor festival.

Sir Gerry features among 10 colts declared for Friday’s Shadwell Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket.

Owner Gerry Galligan has no intention of selling his new star Sir Gerry, and is gearing himself up for the juvenile’s next outing in the Shadwell Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket in early October.

Brazilian rider Nelson de Souza got his season off to a very belated start at Salisbury as he steered home his first winner for 257 days.

Sylvester Kirk has his eyes on a trip to the glamorous seaside resort of Deauville with progressive two-year-old Elhamri.

The Ladbrokes St Leger has sadly lost a lot of its gloss in recent years but fans of the world’s oldest Classic can cheer home a winner from out of the top drawer at Doncaster tomorrow.

Amadeus Wolf delighted the massive Ebor day crowd with a stylish victory in the Scottish Equitable Gimcrack Stakes at York to give local trainer Kevin Ryan his first domestic Group-race success.

GEORGE WASHINGTON is a short-priced favourite for next year’s 2000 Guineas after putting up a scintillating performance to take the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Bryan Smart has expressed himself more than happy with Titus Alone after the Windsor Castle Stakes winner lost his unbeaten record in yesterday’s Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury.

David Junior gave a taste of what is hopefully to come as he proved the star act on the opening day of Sandown’s Coral-Eclipse meeting this afternoon.

FRANKIE DETTORI reached 100 winners for the year with a 7-1 double at Windsor last night.

John Dunlop was left to wonder what might have been after Discreet Brief ran right away with the ACMC Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

ROGER CHARLTON is expecting a big run from Three Valleys in the Group One Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

KIEREN FALLON was partially successful in his appeal against a two-day ban at Jockey Club headquarters in London yesterday.