Insatiable rewards Stout's patience

Singspiel and Pilsudski may have departed their boxes for stallion duties but Michael Stoute has another senior standard bearer in Insatiable, emphatic winner of the Group Three Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown yesterday evening.

Stoute, who campaigned his older pair with such success over the past couple of seasons, has needed a saint's patience with Insatiable, whose public appearances have been limited by injuries which have been minor but legion.

But the five-year-old made a successful return in a conditions race at Newmarket's Guineas Festival at the start of the month and made the transition to the Pattern in style.

Fifth into the straight for Michael Kinane, the bay headed Germano just inside the two-furlong marker and quickly put lengths between himself and his opponents.

And although the slow-starting Garuda stayed on into second, Insatiable still had two and a half to spare at the line, with four back to Germano.

Stoute, who may now send the entire, a 9 to 2 chance, to Royal Ascot, was clearly impressed.

"That was a very, very, good performance," he said. "We have always thought a lot of this horse, but he has had minor injuries and that is only his seventh race.

"He is well entered. He is in the Prince of Wales's Stakes and that is what I would be thinking of, but I would want the ground to be at least good."

Bint Allayl lowered Speedy James' colours in the Listed National Stakes to give Mick Channon his first winner for owner Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maktoum.