TRAINER Jack Berry, apprentice Paul Roberts and owners Chris and Antonia Deuters landed a 155 to 1 double at Epsom yesterday with Tuscan Dawn and Selhurstpark Flyer.
Tuscan Dawn (12 to 1), the horse who got the Deuters hooked on racing, set the ball rolling in the Gerald Eve Handicap where the chestnut got in front close home to beat Tart And A Half and Portelet, the 9 to 4 favourite, by half a length and a head.
Mrs Deuters said: "We have nine with Jack but this was our first horse. He won first time out and that was us hooked."
The couple bought a grey son of Paris House at the Doncaster Sales on Tuesday for 21,000 guineas, and Mrs Deuters added: "I'm going back up there tonight to see what else is going.
Francis Norton was banned for two days (September 20th-21st) for using his whip with unreasonable frequency on La Belle Dominique, who finished sixth.
Selhurstpark Flyer clinched the double at 11 to 1 in the Rubbing House Conditions Stakes, making all to beat Marl by two and a half lengths.
Mrs Deuters, whose husband is an investment banker, said: "It was either this race or the Portland Handidap at Doncaster for him. I'm glad he came to Epsom. We had a double in June at Chester with Albert The Bear and Frederick The Fierce.
"Selhurstpark Flyer will run in the Ayr Gold Cup where he will have 8st 7lbs and Albert The Bear will go for the Silver Cup at the same meeting."
Roberts was crowning a great week. He won on Palacegate Jack on Monday, and yesterday was his father's birthday.
Dear Life ran for it in the Southern Mobile Handicap and gave apprentice Martin Dwyer his first winner for the Julie Cecil stable.
The filly shot clear two and a half furlongs from home under Dwyer, who is with Ian Balding, to win at 9 to 2 by three and a half lengths from Shining Dancer.
Willy Jardine, Mrs Cecil's assistant said: "We had to run her here as she had been put up 5lbs for finishing third in her last race. She is a tough little thing who loves her racing."
Ninia completed a hat trick in the Chalk Lane Rated Stakes in silk smooth style under Richard Hills.
Mark Johnston's filly owned by Diana Schreiber, shadowed Double Bluff until the three long marker where Hills pressed the button and the partnership went clear to score by six lengths from Clan Ben, Double Bluff was a head away in third.
Mrs Schreiber hopes that Ninia will become the second brood mare at her farm on the moorst, above Whitby. The first foal of her Miss Ritz was sold for 5,200 guineas at Tuesday's Doncaster sales.
She said: "We thought that, Ninia's maximum trip was this mile and two furlongs, but the way she won today makes wonder if she would get a and a half."
Shii Take had things all his own way in the opening Langley Vale Median Auction Stakes. On his two previous outings, Reg Akehurst's colt had been runner up to Good Juvenile from the Peter Chapple Hyam stable, but on this occasion, that yard's Sea Mist posed no threat.
Seb Sanders made virtually all on the 4 to 6 favourite to beat Supply and Demand and Another Night by three lengths and four.
Akehurst said: "He had two tough races against those Chapple Hyam horses, and I was looking for something easier where he could go out and enjoy himself.
"You can do a good two year old in if you slap his bottom too much, and this chap should be smart at three. I may give him just one more outing this season, possibly in a little conditions race."
Supamova, a 9 to 2 shot Richard Quinn, gave trainer Paul Cole a 55th birthday present by taking the closing Downs Maiden Stakes by three quarters of a length from Lucky Archer.
