Express steams home

Gulf Express made the journey from Newmarket a more than worthwhile excursion when motoring up the Pontefract hill to claim top honours in the race of the day.

Michael Stoute’s progressive three-year-old was settled just off a false early gallop by champion jockey Ryan Moore, before the man in the plate asked him to take closer order as the pace began to quicken in the Dalby Screw-Driver Handicap.