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![]() | Racewatch: Newmarket day one ![]() BBC Sport Online brings you race-by-race details from the opening card of the three-day Guineas meeting at Newmarket. The feature race, the Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes, was won by 9-1 shot Marienbard. (all times BST) Going: Good 1710: Newmarket Challenge Whip 1 Wild Fling (J Fortune) 8-11f 1635: Directa Gaffa Maiden Fillies Stakes 1 Ludynosa (J P Spencer) 9-4f 1600: Directa Parseal Dahlia Stakes 1 Tarfshi P Robinson 10-1 1525: H & K Commissions Handicap Stakes (Seven furlongs) 1 Takes Tutu 7-1 (K Dalgleish) Keith Dalgleish - second in the apprentice championship last season - pushed Takes Tutu to the front with just under a furlong to travel. The pair held off a spirited challenge from Jamie Spencer on board the fast-moving Grizedale to win by half a length. Lady Lindsay got up to finish in third with the Mick Channon-trained Pic Up Sticks fourth as the favourite Cassirer, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, fell back. 17 ran with Kool - pronounced lame in the paddock - a non-runner. 1450: Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes 1 Marienbard 9-1 (J Spencer) Godolphin's Marienbard surged home from off the pace to beat last year's winner - and 2000 St Leger champion - Millenary by a nose. Jockey Jamie Spencer left the run until the last minute to pip Pat Eddery's mount with Storming Home in third. Gritty Zindabad was fourth with Asian Heights a non-runner. 1415: Pearl and Coutts Newmarket Stakes 1 Highdown 11-2 (M Dwyer) The Marcus Tregoning-trained Highdown edged out second favourite Moon Ballad - a drifter in the market - by a short head. Hotly fancied Derby entrant Judgement trailed in eights length back in third. 1345: Waterford House Brian Madell Handicap 1 Jabaar 4-1f (R Hills) Top weight and clear favourite Jabaar, ridden by Richard Hills, burst clear of the pack to win by three lengths from Pretrail. Outsider Morro Castle came in third with Street Life (20-1) in fourth. |
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