Double Rush Heads One-two For Charlie Hills At HQ

Double Rush led home one-two for trainer Charlie Hills in the curtain-raising bet365 Handicap on Craven Stakes day at Newmarket.


A winner on the all-weather at Wolverhampton little over a fortnight back, Double Rush was a 9-4 preferred to follow up on his handicap launching in the hands of Jason Watson and got the much better of stablemate Bob Mali by a length and a quarter.


Hills stated of the winner: "He won his amateur extremely well in a great time at Wolverhampton and I think he's going to be a good, improving three-year-old through the season.


"A few of our horses weren't right last season, so he had a nice mark truly. He probably didn't deal with the track that well today and a flatter track will match him much better.


"There's an important handicap at York a week or two before Royal Ascot and we might aim him for that, however we'll see how he improves and take it step by action."


John and Thady Gosden quickly followed up their win in the function Craven Stakes by saddling Swiss Lightning (2-1 favourite) to take the Rossdales Maiden Fillies' Stakes in figured out fashion.


Double Rush winning the opening race at Newmarket on Wednesday (Mike Egerton/PA)


Making simply her second start, the Lordship Stud stud-owned daughter of Night Of Thunder showed a significant mindset to come out on top in a thrilling three-way finish.


"We provided her an experience of the racecourse at the end of in 2015, however it was heavy ground and she didn't like it, she was a bit weak and the jockey cared for her and she has actually done well today as it wasn't the plan and there was no pace, it was a messy race - she looked a bit chewy early on however settled into it.


"That was over seven and it really much seemed like we should remain at 7 and do not go back to six and not go up to a mile, so we'll have an excellent appearance. I wouldn't wish to hurry her back from that as she's had a tough sufficient race, however you have got to be pleased with her.


"She revealed a great mindset because she struck the front, then wasn't sure what she was implied to be doing, but she didn't provide up. Ryan (Moore, on Richard Hannon's runner-up Stellenbosch) had the rail which's a big advantage with these unskilled fillies."


Stallion Ten Sovereigns had the one-two in the concluding Watch Live Racing At bet365 Handicap as Harry Charlton's Ten Pounds (5-1) saw off Tom Clover's 5-4 preferred Fifty Nifty in the hands of .