The former England international footballer Mick Channon teamed up with an avid Scotland fan to clinch victory with Seazun in the Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket yesterday.
John Breslin was at his base in Hong Kong as his filly displayed great spirit to land the spoils in the £137,000 Group One contest. Seazun battled on bravely in the hands of Richard Quinn to deny Torgau by a head.
"John's been with me as an owner for a while - but I can tell you he's a Jock through and through," grinned Channon.
Seazun was justifying Channon's aggressive policy with his two-year-olds. He has run 62 horses from that age group this season with half of them winning at least once.
Roger Charlton secured the £300,000 Tattersalls Houghton Sales for the third time in six runnings as newcomer Inchlonaig showed plenty of dash to defeat Bedazzling by half a length.
Jockey John Reid completed a double when Out of Africa landed the Jersey Lily Fillies' Nursery. Rada's Daughter bagged her third victory of the campaign in the NGK Spark Plugs Handicap. Earlier he won the Soltykoff Maiden Stakes on Peacock Jewel's.
Philip Robinson will have to appear before the Jockey Club's disciplinary committee after committing a whip offence aboard Bedazzling. The stewards found that Robinson had used the whip with excessive frequency and did not give his mount time to respond. But the value of the race means that Robinson must be punished by the stewards at Portman Square.
