Richard Quinn showed why he is top jockey at Brighton with a brilliant piece of enterprise on Son of Snurge at the seaside track yesterday.

The Stirling-born rider had the nerve to bowl out in front on the previously disappointing three-year-old over the mile and a half of the Sussex Express Classified Stakes.

It was a tactic that fooled his fellow riders as Son of Snurge, trained by Quinn's former boss Paul Cole, never came back to the field.

Wearing blinkers for the first time, Son of Snurge got off the mark in great style by 10 lengths from Noukari.

It was Quinn's 80th success of the season and his 47th in the last five years at the unique Sussex circuit.

Cole's travelling head lad Richard Warden said: "He's finally done what he's always done every morning at home. The blinkers sharpened him up although he has always gone well for Richard."

Khibrah, a winner here a month ago, repeated the trick in the day's Showcase race, the TR Beckett Stakes.

The 4 to 1 favourite collared pacemaker Cedar Wells just inside the final furlong to score by a length and a half with Prospectors Cove a short head away third.

A return visit could be on the cards for the Ed Dunlop-trained filly.

Brighton's leading trainer Richard Hannon is averaging a winner a day at the moment and the Marlborough handler took his tally for the campaign to 66 when Mersey Mirage made all the running in the EBF/Victoria Newth Maiden Stakes.