Favourite-backers had a torrid time in the Marchpole Handicap at Ascot as market leader Young Mick went down by a diminishing head to Amanda Perrett’s Night Crescendo.
Not for the first time this season, Young Mick failed to enjoy the rub of the green and had a rough passage through the field to begin his challenge.
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