Eye Of The Water avoids eventual runner-up who tries to bite winner in the finish

There was a dramatic conclusion to the mile handicap when Havana Goldrush attempted to bite 22-1 winner Eye Of The Water on the run to the line.

Eye Of The Water moved past his rival and took control of the race inside the final furlong, and looked unconcerned as he narrowly avoided the lunging runner-up, ridden by Liam Keniry, when he swung his head suddenly to his right.

Havana Goldrush was attempting to follow up his first turf success, which came on his previous start at this track last month, before getting distracted by the job at hand. The son of Havana Gold has worn blinkers on all 18 of his starts since failing to beat a rival on his debut at Kempton in October 2021.

It was a less fond moment on Havana Goldrush for Keniry, who partnered the four-year-old to the 1,000th winner of his career at Wolverhampton when dead-heating with 1-6 shot Golden Sands in February last year.

Shoemark sweet on Succession

Jockey Kieran Shoemark believes Succession's debut run at Newbury last month was crucial to him landing a first victory in the 5f maiden stakes.

The Clive Cox-trained colt finished fourth of eight at the Berkshire track last time out but managed to get off the mark on his second run when justifying favouritism to beat seven rivals.

Shoemark told Sky Sports Racing: "He was very quick and he was at Newbury. We wanted to put his experience to good use and he did that – he jumped and travelled like a dream.

"He's a quick-ground horse who has a lovely attitude and he ran through the line good."

Succession is the Lambourn trainer's only two-year-old runner of the year so far and Cox believes his victory augurs well.

Cox added: "I was really pleased. He's such a lovely moving horse, I'm sure he'll be happier still with even drier ground than today.

"We're still learning about them all. I think with the spring we've had, with it being so wet, we're just pleased to have a two-year-old winner in the bag and we can grow the whole team around that."

In-form yard

Jack Channon continued his red-hot form with an across-the-card double, which included Hiromichi scoring in the mile handicap.

The trainer has had five winners in the past fortnight after Indian Creak came out on top in the 6f handicap at Windsor.

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