City and Yeats star on a busy weekend

A weekend of trials closed with an emphatic victory for Vodafone Derby favourite Yeats in Ireland yesterday, while the horse to make the biggest impact on the Classic picture in Britain was undoubtedly Salford City.

David Elsworth’s exciting colt emerged from the Lane’s End Greenham Stakes as a potential star after scything through a field of high-class rivals to win the Newbury race.