Newsboy money going to charity

Mark Tompkins is rightly feeling pretty pleased with himself after a long-held plan came to fruition in the William Hill Lincoln at Doncaster on Saturday.

Connections of Southwark Newsboy have defended themselves as the row over the so-called boycott by a number of trainers of the Easter Monday meeting at Yarmouth rumbles on.

Just 34 horses were declared for six races, including the Christine Dunnett-trained Southwark Newsboy, the sole runner in the toteplacepot Maiden Stakes and guaranteed victory by way of a walkover.