Ogbourne trainer Peter Makin was relieved to see his charge Heaven make the winners' enclosure last weekend after the three-year-old had finished second on her two previous runs.
LOOKING back over the Royal meeting at Ascot, day one provided plenty of shocks for the backers with 100-1 shot Flashmans Papers winning the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes, Equiano 22-1 winning the Group I Kings Stand Stakes at 22-1and Missoula (20-1) in the winners enclosure in the Ascot Stakes.
TOP hat and tails are the order of the day at Ascot on Tuesday when the five-day Royal meeting gets underway with three Group One races on the opening day.
Sean Cusack, head groom at Alan King's Barbury Castle yard, is to stay on after his plans to train for businessman Carl Barnes in West Yorkshire fell through.
MARLBOROUGH trainer Martin Bosley and local jockey George Baker were on the ball again at Leicester earlier in the week when the duo landed the Hickling Selling Stakes with 12-1 shot Boldinor.
EPSOM
THE weather looks to be set fair for tomorrow's Vodafone Derby run over one mile four furlongs of the famous Epsom Downs course, writes RAY BURROUGHS.
IT'S a busy week ahead for Bath Racecourse - tomorrow sees a family fun day at the Lansdown venue followed by next Friday's evening meeting where Australian legend Rolf Harris performs after racing.
Trainer George Foster, former assistant to Brian Meehan at Manton before moving to Scotland to take over the reins at a purpose-built yard near Musselburgh Racecourse, saddled his first flat winner since taking out a licence last October.
CHAMPION Hurdle-winning trainer Alan King will saddle his first ever runner in France tomorrow with another of his Cheltenham Festival heroes, Nenuphar Collonges.
