Double Rush Heads One-two For Charlie Hills At HQ

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Double Rush led home one-two for fitness instructor Charlie Hills in the curtain-raising bet365 Handicap on Craven Stakes day at Newmarket.


A winner on the all-weather at Wolverhampton little over a fortnight earlier, Double Rush was a 9-4 preferred to follow up on his handicap debut in the hands of Jason Watson and got the better of stablemate Bob Mali by a length and a quarter.


Hills stated of the winner: "He won his amateur extremely well in a great time at Wolverhampton and I think he's going to be a great, enhancing three-year-old through the season.


"A few of our horses weren't ideal last season, so he had a good mark truly. He probably didn't deal with the track that well today and a flatter track will match him better.


"There's an important handicap at York a week or so before Royal Ascot and we might aim him for that, however we'll see how he enhances and take it step by action."


John and Thady Gosden quickly followed up their win in the feature Craven Stakes by saddling Swiss Lightning (2-1 favourite) to take the Rossdales Maiden Fillies' Stakes in figured out style.


Double Rush winning the opening race at Newmarket on Wednesday (Mike Egerton/PA)


Making just her second start, the Lordship Stud stud-owned child of Night Of Thunder revealed a tremendous mindset to come out on top in an awesome three-way finish.


"We offered her an experience of the racecourse at the end of last year, but it was heavy ground and she didn't like it, she was a bit weak and the jockey took care of her and she has done well today as it wasn't the plan and there was no pace, it was a messy race - she looked a bit chewy early on however settled into it.


"That was over 7 and it quite felt like we must remain at 7 and do not return to 6 and not go up to a mile, so we'll have a great look. I wouldn't want to rush her back from that as she's had a difficult adequate race, however you have actually got to enjoy with her.


"She showed a fantastic attitude due to the fact that she hit the front, then wasn't sure what she was suggested to be doing, however she didn't quit. Ryan (Moore, on Richard Hannon's runner-up Stellenbosch) had the rail and that's a big benefit with these unskilled fillies."


Stallion Ten Sovereigns had the one-two in the concluding Watch Live Racing At bet365 Handicap as Harry Charlton's Ten Pounds (5-1) saw off Tom Clover's 5-4 favourite Fifty Nifty in the hands of .