Weld's late season surge continues as Bona Fide proves her worth

Dermot Weld is one trainer who probably won't be pleased about the Flat season coming to an end as he has hit a rich vein of form in the last week or so, which continued as rider Declan McDonogh combined with owner Khalid Abdullah for an interesting double.

The feature fillies' handicap went to Bona Fide, who overcame her relative inexperience to keep on well from the front to beat the persistent Roccia Bella and unlucky favourite Best Not Argue by a diminishing half-length. Weld is likely to try to find some black type for the daughter of Frankel before the end of the year.

Of more significance was the performance of newcomer Tankerville in the third of the two-year-old maidens. There was a strong word beforehand for this son of Kitten's Joy and he didn't disappoint, quickening up well inside the last furlong and stretching clear to beat fellow newcomer Killourney by two and a quarter lengths.