Oasis lands Middle Park plunge

OASIS DREAM lived up to the expectations of trainer John Gosden when setting a new course record in the Shadwell Stud Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket yesterday.

Gosden, whose Manton string are in red-hot form, is not known on the racecourse for being the greatest optimist.

But despite having won just a Nottingham maiden, Gosden said he had been ‘‘quietly confident about him being hard to beat’’ in this £174,000 Group One contest.