BOOKMAKERS were left thanking their lucky stars that Integral just missed out in the big race because it was only her defeat that prevented a straight six-timer for Ryan Moore on the first six Newbury races.

Some of them still faced extensive pay-outs as the former champion landed a superb five-timer at combined odds of 1,962/1. Some layers estimated that victory for Integral would have cost the industry in the region of £20m.

Moore started off with Richard Fahey’s youngster Birchwood (11/1) in the Olympic Glory Conditions Stakes. This was a remarkable price, given that Fahey has a fine record in the south, Moore has a splendid strike-rate riding for him and Dark Angel seems to have winners every day.

Fahey believes Birchwood needs seven furlongs, which probably rules out the Coventry at Royal Ascot and points the way to the Superlative Stakes at Newmarket. He was switched and quickened away from Mark Johnston’s Beaverbrook here.

Then came Telescope in the Listed Al Rayyan Stakes, the old Aston Park, over a mile and a half. Telescope may not be out of the very top drawer but he is essentially at least two grades better than listed and should probably have been 2/5 rather than 8/13 when thrashing Dubday and Windshear by six lengths and four. The Hardwicke Stakes is on the agenda, with evens the offer about repeating last year’s triumph.

William Haggas’ Adaay, aiming for the Commonwealth Cup, was made 4/1 favourite and won the Listed Toronado Carnarvon Stakes over six furlongs by just under two lengths from Jungle Cat before Time Test justified 7/2 favouritism in the Al Zubarah London Gold Cup over a mile and a quarter.

Moore was riding for Roger Charlton in this and defeated Sir Michael Stoute’s Dissolution (Andrea Atzeni) by just over a length. Charlton also won the race with Al Kazeem, who was then absent until the Great Votigeur at York, but the trainer sees Time Test as a 10-furlong horse and is thinking in terms of the King Edward VII or the Tercentenary Stakes at the royal meeting.

STOUTE TEAM

Finally Moore teamed up with Sir Michael Stoute - who remains his retaining trainer - to win the Haras De Bouquetot Fillies’ Trial, a listed event, on 7/2 chance Crystal Zvezda for Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.

“We’ll get her home and see about plans but I was very impressed,’’ Stoute said. “She’s in the Oaks and the Ribblesdale but she’s only just coming along and was backward in the spring.’’

The Oaks must surely be a big temptation and this half-sister to Hillstar was cut from 33/1 to 8/1.

Interestingly, Fahey was thinking of running Loving Spirit, who never quite got into it in the big mile handicap at York two days previously, in the Planteur Handicap over the straight mile with Moore engaged. He changed his mind and took the horse out but it may well be worth checking Loving Spirit’s future engagements. Victory went to Brian Meehan’s 9/2 chance Spark Plug and Jimmy Fortune.

Biddick’s five-timer

TWENTY-FOUR hours after Ryan Moore’s Newbury blitz, Will Biddick also rode a five-timer in the contrasting world of point-to-points. The 28-year-old, who rides work for Paul Nicholls and Jack Barber, won five times at Bratton in Devon, taking his score for the season to 61 and cracking the previous record set by Oliver Greenall in 2008. Weight problems forced him to return to racing between the flags but he won the Freddie Williams Festival Plate at Cheltenham for Venetia Williams in 2009 when competing as a conditional.