AS the rain continued to fall there were worries about Karl Burke’s Havana Grey in the Group 3 Bombay Sapphire Molecomb Stakes, the speedy youngster having twice dominated at Sandown on totally different ground.

However, there is no telling whether horses will handle a surface until they try it and the son of Havana Gold came home in style, beating July Stakes fourth Invincible Army by just under two lengths with To Wafij third.