CHARLIE Hills may have made a slow start to the season but the stable is flying now and he landed the Group 3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes with 16/1 shot Dutch Connection, a son of Dutch Art.

The first two in the market, 6/4 favourite Basateen and Aidan O’Brien’s Jamaica, were backed almost to the exclusion of everything else but they could manage only third and fourth as the unconsidered 33/1 chance Toocoolforschool battled on well in the final furlong, only to be nailed and beaten a head by the winner and William Buick in the dying strides.