NO NEWS and No Dunce, the first and second foals of Dundovale, won their respective races to give Paddy Mullins and Tommy Treacy a mixed double at Wexford last evening.
Although absent since February, Mullins produced 3 to 1 favourite No News fit enough to win the Nick O'Donnell Memorial Maiden Hurdle, giving leading jockey Treacy his 19th jumps winner of the season.
Also no stranger to success on the flat this year Treacy brought No Dunce, a half-sister to his earlier winner, home a length clear in the Tuskar Handicap, his fourth winner in that code this term.
Another to complete a double was Aidan O'Brien, successful in the Nicky Rackard Maiden Hurdle with the Charlie Swan-ridden Slave Gale and, in the Datapac Handicap, with Maid To Move, who will next be seen over hurdles, possibly at Tramore.
Another bound for that seaside venue, increasingly under threat of closure, is Eithne Holdsworth's The South Pole Inn, an all-the-way winner of the Enniscorthy Opportunity Handicap Hurdle under Sean Butler.
Attack At Dawn battled back bravely, after trying to make all in the Jim Whitty Memorial Flat Race, to win in an extraordinary five-way photo finish.
Old-timer Chucklestone tossed aside his pension book to record course win number eight at Bath yesterday. The 13-year-old never-say-die attitude was very much in evidence as he battled back past favourite Bold Classic to snatch the BBC Radio Bristol Handicap by a neck under Jimmy Quinn.
But there was a sting in the tail for Quinn and Pat Eddery, who partnered the runner-up, when both were found guilty of using their whips with unreasonable frequency and banned to two days (August 23rd and 24th) ruling them out of Goodwood's Tripleprint Celebration Mile.
Charlton Imp's last gasp victory over stablemate Cedar Dancer in the August Selling Stakes had the duo's trainer Ron Hodges laughing all the way to the bank. "I own a half share in the runner up and a quarter in the winner so you could say it doesn't really matter which one won," said Hodges.
Charlton Imp's short head call enabled Stephen Drowne to pass a career landmark as it provided him with his 100th success. Drowne took his first step towards a second century when Toby Balding's Ca'D'oro held off Sharp Shuffle by the minimum margin for the Mile Maiden Handicap to complete a 61 1/2 to 1 double for the rider.
Ca'D'Oro's victory enabled Balding to get back on the scoresheet for the first time in 42 days and he admitted that some of his horses had not been firing recently.
Dancethenightaway, third on her debut at the course three weeks ago, improved for the experience to run away with the Mendip Maiden Fillies Stakes, beating Blues Queen by a length and a half.
Vic Deering today becomes the first jockey to face the Jockey Club disciplinary committee under the new "three strikes and you're out" referral system introduced at the beginning of this year.
Deering was referred to Portman Square by the local stewards after they considered he had breached Rule 153 (iii), concerning his use of the whip when he rode Keston Pond in the Zanussi/Northern Electric Handicap Stakes at Newcastle on August 7th.
It was the third time this season Deering had breached the rule.
