The evidence from this flying Gosden colt tells me he will be very difficult to beat at York this weekend

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James Doyle was in his Wathnan Racing jacket aboard the easy-to-spot Damysus at second lot on the Al Bahathri Polytrack on Wednesday when the colt impressed, coming clear of the same owner’s Torito.

After two goes at being reinvented as a miler, the son of Frankel is stepping up to 1m2½f for the Group 2 Sky Bet York Stakes on Saturday, a distance which should play to his strengths on this evidence.

Also among the John and Thady Gosden-trained ranks was William Buick, who put his intended Group 1 Nassau Stakes mount Friendly Soul through a smart exercise with Danielle (Robert Havlin).