THE season at Newmarket goes on to the end and there were three listed races at headquarters on Saturday.

James Fanshawe often has back-end winners and his filly Permission did well to wriggle out of a pocket and land the James Seymour Stakes over 10 furlongs under Daniel Muscatt. Previously second in a race for fillies and mares here, she took on the boys and got up to beat Air Pilot by a neck.

Permission is by Derby winner Authorized, blacktype cannot do any harm, but she may not be kept in training at five.

KIRBY TREBLE

The story of Godolphin’s season is one of countless successes just below the top level, with Charlie Appleby saddling a shoal of winners. There was another in the Listed Montrose Fillies’ Stakes as Hadith, a New Approach youngster, made all to hold Joseph O’Brien’s Baroness by just over a length, justifying 5/2 favouritism in the process.

Winning jockey Adam Kirby, already successful in the nursery on easy winner Shaherezada for Clive Cox. was told to ride an attacking race and did so. Hadith stayed a mile well and should get 10 furlongs next summer.

The jockey completed his treble on Appleby’s Bravo Zolo, who kept on a shade too strongly for David O’Meara’s impressive Ascot scorer Lord Glitters in the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes.

Lord Glitters needed a stronger pace from the off but this was a good effort by the winner (3/1 from 5/1), runner-up in the Lincoln but off since April. He likes a bit of cut but will go to Dubai over the winter.

Martila wins at Ayr

AYR’S Saturday card also offered attractive prize money and Pauline Robson’s Martila, 7/1, had the better of a stern tussle with Alphabetical Order in the Tennent’s Cup Scottish Champion Hurdle Trial. Malcolm Jefferson’s warm favourite Mount Mews could finish only third.

A French-bred mare by Martaline, Martila runs in the familiar Raymond Anderson Green colours and showed here that she can handle heavy ground. Second in this last year, she is tough and consistent and goes for a valuable handicap hurdle at Musselburgh over the new year.

Action at Carlisle

MALCOLM Jefferson had better luck at Carlisle on Sunday when 4/5 favourite Waiting Patiently ran out a ready winner of the listed four-runner Colin Parker Memorial Intermediate Chase over two-miles, four-furlongs.

There was very good prize money here as well, a point not lost on southern raiders, although Berwickshire trainer Sandy Thomson took the long distance Cumberland Handicap Chase with 25/1 shot Harry The Viking, who belied his 12 years in a very tight finish with Topper Thornton.

Nigel Twiston-Davies is unstoppable at present but Count Meribel, who won the opening novices’ hurdle at 11/4, is looked after by Champion Hurdle-winning trainer Jim Old, who went to work for him a while back.

Count Meribel clearly likes Carlisle and defied a penalty in beating Kildisart by just over two lengths with the reliable Mark Grant in the plate.

Politologue strikes gold

EXETER staged one of its most prestigious meetings on Tuesday, when 5/2 favourite Politologue gave Paul Nicholls a sixth victory in the Grade 2 188Bet Haldon Gold Cup.

It was a very successful race for the former champion trainer with stable-companion San Benedeto closing the gap on the run-in as the winner idled with the race in safe keeping. Kerry Lee’s Gino’s Trail held on to third, having led until Sam Twiston-Davies cruised past on Politologue after three out. San Benedeto was the beneficiary when Politologue came down in a Grade 1 novices’ chase at Aintree but set the record straight here.

“He’s learning all the time and settling much better now,” Nicholls said. “I thought he might just need it but he did well. He’ll go for the Tingle Creek if the ground is not too soft.”