Oxx’s Rock up for the Cup

JOHN Oxx maintained his 100% record in Britain this season courtesy of a taking success for Saddler’s Rock in the Stobart Doncaster Cup yesterday.

In the wake of Alanza continuing her rapid progression in a Group Three on Town Moor 24 hours earlier, it was a surprise punters allowed Saddler’s Rock, from the last crop of possibly the greatest sire of all time, Sadler’s Wells, to go off at 11-2.

Unraced at two, he had been progressive this season and was a close third behind Fictional Account and none other than Fame And Glory in a trial for the Irish St Leger.