SEVENTH Heaven landed the odds as expected with a cosy victory in the Dunaden Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. Sent off the 4/7 favourite, Aidan O'Brien's Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner disposed of the opposition in this Group 2 without being flat out, giving her trainer the first leg of a big-race double at the meeting.

Galapiat was the first to lead but Pinzolo went on after a quarter of a mile until two furlongs out, when Ryan Moore asked Seventh Heaven to go and win the race. She pulled clear in the final furlong and was five lengths ahead of French raider One Foot In Heaven at the line.

O'Brien said: "She's a lovely mare. We know she gets a mile and a half well and she loves good ground or better and she's progressing all the time. Obviously she was a very good mare last year and physically she's doing very well. She ran some very good races last year.

"We came here today with one eye on the Coronation Cup. We tried to get a run in between and this race might work for her. We were delighted with her in Dubai and this race was lovely. You have to be very happy with her."

Moore said: "That was very smooth. Quick ground is very important to her. She hasn't had her conditions since the Yorkshire Oaks and she has done remarkably well from three to four."

One Foot In Heaven's rider Jim Crowley said: "The ground was probably too quick for him but I think the trip is right. He still ran a good race. He is a good horse, he just needs a little bit more juice under foot and a more level track."

Ismail Mohammed, trainer of third-placed Pinzolo, said: "It was a very strong race and I am happy with him and how he ran. He has ran really well with the top horses. The filly is highly rated and to run in a Group 2 and come third, we are happy.

"He ran in the Winter Derby and came second and it is good for him that he can run on grass and all-weather. I will sit together with my assistant Mike Marshall and see where we go from here."

Marsha defied a 7lb penalty for her Prix de l'Abbaye triumph with a scintillating display to take the Longholes Palace House Stakes on her seasonal debut.

The Sir Mark Prescott-trained filly showed a superb turn of foot in the final furlong to get the best possible start to her 2017 campaign with a clear-cut victory in this Group 3 test over five furlongs.

Luke Morris brought the 8/1 shot near the stands rail to power into the lead and held the challenge of the Aidan O'Brien-trained Washington DC by a neck. Goldream, the winner of this race in 2015, was a length away in third place.

Morris said: "I thought it would be very tough for her off a 7lb penalty and when Sir Mark told me the last filly to do that was Lochsong, I knew she would have to be very good. Fair play to the team at home. They got her spot on for today.

"She has really filled out and when I pushed the button on her, I got there too soon to be honest, she got a bit tired up the hill. I thought she was very good. When I pressed the button she was electric and, fingers crossed, there will be more big prizes for her this year.

"All her best form is over five, so races like the King's Stand and the Abbaye will be right up her street."

Prescott said: "When she won a listed race at Ayr, that was the beginning. She looked very impressive and has improved and improved and she has obviously improved today because she was meeting everything 7lb worse and she beat them again, the Abbaye crew, so she's done very well.

"I think Lochsong (in 1994) was the last one to win this race with a 7lb penalty. It was a very good performance and she has to keep going. We were going to Haydock (for the Temple Stakes) and we will see what 147 owners here want to do, but I think we will probably wait for Ascot (the King's Stand).

"She is a filly and they are remembered by their best performance - maybe we would have gone to Haydock if she was a colt, but we will probably wait for Ascot. She goes very quick. She is very straightforward and sound, but she is very strong at home.

"She has only worked on her own at home and she has not worked with another horse this spring. Luke hasn't sat on her since the Abbaye. He gets on well with her but he is not allowed to sit on her at home."

MOORE TREBLE

Permian gave Ryan Moore his third winner of the day when running away with the Listed Havana Gold Newmarket Stakes.

After wins on Churchill and Seventh Heaven in the two main events, Moore's confidence was sky high and Permian (5/2) was a willing partner. The Mark Johnston-trained colt, runner-up to the highly-regarded Cracksman in his previous start, stretched away in the closing stages to score by four and a half lengths from Speedo Boy.

Johnston said: "Obviously it was a bit of a strangely-run race with James Doyle going off so quick. Ryan Moore said he stayed every inch of it. To be honest, we didn't really think he was stakes level yet, although he is rated 101 so he was never far away from it.

"He went in a handicap at Bath first time out and he was possibly quite unlucky and he would have won if our other horse had not shoved him at a crucial point. He ran a great race again at Epsom. We knew we wanted to test him and this was a good test.

"It's possible we will see him before Ascot. Whether he will go to York or he might come back for a 10-furlong race here. My hunch is that it is a big jump from 10 furlongs to a mile and six furlongs and my hunch is he is going to go for the King Edward VII rather than the Queen's Vase."