BRITISH jockey Tom Marquand enjoyed the full spectrum of emotions at Randwick on Saturday landing a first-ever group-winning double and then falling later in the day and heading to hospital. He was cleared of breaks but had signs of concussion.

Landing the rides for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in the Group 3 juvenile sprints that are important Golden Slipper lead-ins, Marquand made no mistakes getting the Magic Millions-winning Snitzel filly Away Game home, and 35 minutes later winning on the $1.6 million Redoute’s Choice colt Prague.

Both got home by two lengths. The wins took Marquand’s tally to 14 since landing in Australia in January with his time due to end in two weeks, though he is likely to return for the Golden Slipper in March.

“That’s the reason all of us become a jockey to be able to go international a little bit,” said Marquand. “That was my main aim coming over here last year, to be able to build a little bit of a secondary base.

“This has exceeded expectations. I am very lucky with the support I get at home but to find two favourites in two Group 3s, I have never had that at home and I have only been here about five months in total this year and last year.”

Another English jockey in the Australian ranks is the Michael Bell apprentice Cameron Noble.

The 21-year-old, with 57 winners to his name has been given a 1.5kg allowance by stewards and is with the John O’Shea stable. He is yet to make his local debut.

TAKING on the older horses, the three-year-old colt Standout proved too smart in the feature event at Randwick on Saturday, the Group 2 Expressway Stakes over 1,200 metres.

Winning by a length and a half, the Gerald Ryan-trained son of Exceed And Excel downed the Group 1 winner Alizee with the star of the autumn, the Epsom and Golden Eagle winner Kolding back in fourth.

“I thought coming into this race, at his fifth race, I was throwing him in the deep end but it’s either stay back against the three-year-olds or try and win this race and then decide where we head with him in the autumn,” said Ryan.

“I think the way he won that and the way Tommy (Berry) rode him, the way the horse switched off, you could aim him at anything. He’s always shown that he’s got Group 1 ability, he hasn’t got there yet but he’s certainly going to have a crack at it this autumn.”

Out of the Snippets mare Bahia, Standout is full-brother to the 2013 Golden Slipper winner, and now Widden stallion Overreach. He is raced by his breeders Corumbene Stud.

THE Everest winner Yes Yes Yes has been retired to stand at Coolmore in 2020. The three-year-old son of Rubrick was building up his work preparing for a return in the Lightning Stakes before swelling was discovered in a foreleg.

“Yes Yes Yes does not present as lame or sore,” said Chris Waller in a released statement.

“However, despite it being at the minor end of the scale of a tendon injury, the vet does assure me that if we were to push on with his campaign, it could quickly become a more significant problem and, as with any horse, this cannot be contemplated.”

Yes Yes Yes won four of his eight starts, with Coolmore buying into the colt before the Golden Slipper in which he finished seventh on a heavy track.

A Group 2 winner of the Todman Stakes as a juvenile, the Aptly named son of the Fantastic Light mare Sin Sin Sin, was second in the Group 1 Golden Rose as a three-year-old.

“As disappointed as we are that this – thankfully minor – injury prevents our being able to show off Yes Yes Yes on the international stage at Royal Ascot in June, it is to Chris and his team, including the horse’s devoted carer Mick Channon Jnr that our thoughts go out.

“For them a wonderful journey has ended; for us another is just beginning,” relayed Tom Magnier in a press release.

Rapid racing speeds up

DUBBED rapid racing, Flemington breaks new ground on Sunday, launching a seven-race card, all conducted between 1,000 and 1,200 metres, starting from 4 pm and running into the twilight with races spaced every 30 minutes.

Each race will have 14 runners, with jockeys allocated via ballot from two teams of seven riders each. The two teams ‘country’ and ‘city’ will compete for a jockey challenge.