Bandari comes good for Johnston at Newmarket

Mark Johnston got back on the winning trail as Bandari dug deep to shock 11-8 favourite Sulamani in the Princess Of Wales's cantorodds…

Mark Johnston got back on the winning trail as Bandari dug deep to shock 11-8 favourite Sulamani in the Princess Of Wales's cantorodds.com Stakes on the second day of Newmarket.

The Middleham trainer suffered a hammer blow when Attraction lost her unbeaten record in the Falmouth Stakes yesterday.

But he was smiling again after the five-year-old Bandari came with a strong late surge under Richard Hills to catch Sulamani up the hill and win by half a length at 12-1.

The Frankie Dettori-ridden Sulamani had travelled well at the rear of the eight-runner field throughout but hung first to his left and then to his right in the closing stages as he looked to be feeling the ground.

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Captain Hurricane, backed from 16-1 into 10-1 on-course, landed a Betfair gamble to take the TNT July Stakes.

Owned in partnership by the founders of the betting exchange, Andrew Black and Ed Wary - along with the latter's brother, Jeremy - the Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained colt gave the trio their first taste of the big time as owners when coming with a late surge to lift the Group Two contest.

He got the better of the Godolphin-owned 7-4 favourite Council Member, who had gone clear, by a short head.

Paul Howling sent out his second Listed-race winner when Anousa gained a convincing success in the hands of champion jockey Kieren Fallon in the Bahrain Trophy.

With winds almost at gale force, Fallon had Anousa tucked in the slipstream of Isidore Bonheur until easing his mount out to challenge inside the final quarter-mile of the one-mile-seven-furlong stamina test.

Anousa (13-2) struck the front over a furlong from home and forged clear to pass the post with three and a half lengths to spare over the odds-on Top Seed, with Bumptious three-quarters of a length away in third.

Howling, saddling his 22nd winner of the year, said: "Kieren has ridden him in a lot of his work and he has always professed that he is a lovely horse, but I am the one who put my neck on the line with the trip.

"I thought he would have some kind of chance today, but I did not come expecting, so to win in such emphatic style is beyond all belief. We will have to see what to do now. The handicapper might annihilate him so we may have to look for something abroad."

Woodcracker bounced back from a below-par effort at Royal Ascot to take the Joss Collins Stakes in another thrilling finish.

The fierce early gallop set by Mystical Girl soon had some of her rivals toiling but it was Woodcracker and Royal Warrant who emerged from the pack to have the race between themselves in the final stages.

Just when Darryll Holland looked to have asserted on Woodcracker, Martin Dwyer delivered one last lunge which got Royal Warrant to within a short head on the line - but no closer.

David Loder unveiled Stetchworth Prince (9-2) in the Capannelle Racecourse EBF Novice Stakes and the son of Cadeaux Genereux beat his five rivals in convincing fashion.

Young Tom Queally took the race by the scruff of the neck inside the final two furlongs and never looked like being caught once in command.

Godolphin's Army Of Angels (7-2) chased him home in second place while 11-8 favourite Paper Talk got in all sorts of trouble on the far rail but picked up pleasingly when in the clear for third spot.