TWO six-year-old sons of Invincible Spirit landed the pair of listed races run at Lingfield on the all-weather last Saturday. The six-furlong Cleves Stakes was won by Rivellino, bred by Castlemartin Stud and Skymarc Farm, while the 10-furlong Winter Derby Trial Stakes went to the Irish-bred Grendisar for the second year running. He was bred by Old Carhue Stud and Graeng Bloodstock.

Grendisar has a fondness for artificial surfaces and this was his fourth listed win on them. All of his eight career successes are on all-weather and he has now amassed some £225,000 from those triumphs. He is a son of the Irish National Stud’s prize equine asset Invincible Spirit who has a dozen Group 1 winners among his many excellent offspring.