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QUITE apart from a shoal of top-class winners, John Gosden is also to be feared in valuable handicaps. He added another to his tally when Remarkable overcame a bump in the early stages to get up and beat Mjjack in the Cunard Handicap over seven furlongs at Ascot last Saturday.

Remarkable, 10/1, likes big fields and had caught the eye more than once, though he found trouble in running in the International Handicap at this course last time, where Mjjack was again second.

However, he comes into his own in the autumn and hit the front just inside the final furlong before going on to win a shade cosily for Kieran Shoemark, who is chasing David Egan hard in the Apprentice Jockeys Championship.

Heaven’s Guest has taken a long time to come down the handicap but finished a promising third, with Raising Sand fourth.

DUKE SEES OFF DEW AGAIN

Like Clive Cox, Rod Millman is a former jumps jockey made good within the training ranks and he saddled 16/1 shot Duke Of Bronte to lift the valuable Appletiser Stakes, a Heritage Handicap, over a mile and a half.

A late-developing but still immature gelding by Mount Nelson, Duke Of Bronte had started at 100/1 when winning at Newbury in the spring. He showed that to be no fluke by going in again there, beating Melting Dew by a neck – a result replicated to the inch on Saturday when he was partnered by talented apprentice George Wood.

“He’s a lovely horse but still a baby,” Millman said. “He’s now won on firm and soft and I’d like to bring him out again. I rode him myself last week and he gave me a hell of a feel.”