DAVID Howden and David Redvers (below) now race the five-year-old mare Gorgeous Noora in partnership. They purchased her for 200,000gns just a few months ago at the Tattersalls December Sale when she was offered from the retiring Luca Cumani’s Bedford House Stables. At her sale time she had won three races and been placed a number of times.

She has since added a pair of extra victories, but most significantly one of these was last weekend in the Listed Betway Hever Sprint Stakes at Lingfield Park. She warmed up for this with a runner-up effort in the Listed Betway Cleves Stakes, also on the Lingfield all-weather.