GODOLPHIN also won the 32Red Three Year Old Mile Championship Conditions Stakes but this time the bookmakers did not suffer so much because the winner, Four Seasons, started at 6/1 and proved too good for 2/1 favourite Tempus Temporis, another of their three runners.

Again, it paid to dictate the pace and no-one does that better around Lingfield than Adam Kirby, who was riding his 93rd winner of the all-weather season.

Smartly away, Four Seasons had Logorrheic outside him and Richard Fahey’s filly La Dorotea on the rails. However, pace off the final bend proved all-important and Four Seasons was driven clear, holding Tempus Temporis by just over a length with Lexington Times prevailing in a blanket finish for third.

Lexington Times had finished in front of the winner over seven furlongs last time but Kirby and Charlie Appleby learned from that.

“It’s all about pace here and when I saw Adam go clear off the bend I knew it would take a very good horse to beat us,” the trainer said.

“Four Seasons is by Dubawi and, quite apart from being game, they go on anything, so there’s no problem in reverting to turf when we’re ready.”

MUSSELBURGH ROUND-UP

At Musselburgh, heavy rain meant the emphasis was on stamina and 16/1 chance Buthelezi, most recently a faller in a handicap chase at the track, recaptured some of his old flat form for trainer Brian Ellison to make all in the Balmoral Cup over a mile and three-quarters.

Ben Curtis rode an enterprising race on him, as did Ian Brennan on John Quinn’s Moonlightnavigator (11/1) in the totequadpot Royal Mile.

Old Borderlescott turned out at the age of 13 in the conditions sprint which honoured him and right well he ran too, although this is the right time of year to catch Bryan Smart’s Tangerine Trees (17/2), who made all and beat him by just over a length.