IT was business at usual at Sandown yesterday where Double Trigger and Mind Games combined to provide repeat showings of their 1995 form with victories in the Henry II and Temple Stakes.

The pair, among Flat racing's most popular performers, thrilled a Bank Holiday crowd when each completed impressive wins that set them up for a date at Royal Ascot.

Double Trigger secured one of his most convincing triumphs. For after having to pull out all the stops to score at Ascot last time he never looked in serious danger as he made all the running to win by seven lengths.

With Moonax withdrawn because he was lame in the morning, Assessor and Court Of Honour, who finished second and third, proved no match for the winner who pulled away from them up the straight.

The five year old now heads for the Ascot Gold Cup, the first leg of the stayer's triple crown, where among his most dangerous opponents will be his brother Double Eclipse.

Mind Games, whose form tailed off last season, made a winning reappearance in the Temple Stakes to again raise hopes that he is capable of securing an elusive first Group One win for his trainer Jack Berry.

Despite the cut in the ground the four year old took the lead at halfway and maintained it to deny Struggler by three quarters of a length with the fast finishing Woodborough a length back in third.

First and second will clash again in the Kings Stand Stakes, in which they finished third and second last year, but Mind Games will be a fresher horse this year.