Andrew Balding and Colin Keane’s good few days continues when Blue Bolt took her record to three wins from four starts with victory in the Listed Coral Distaff.

An impressive winner of a novice event under a penalty at Newbury 23 days ago, the Juddmonte-owned daughter of Blue Point was sent off a 2/1 chance to stretch her winning one to three.

Always towards the fore under Colin Keane, she found plenty for pressure in the closing stages to see off the John and Thady Gosden-trained Cajole by a length.

Keane said: "When I saw the draw we had (stall three), I knew there was no point in taking her back,"

"I'm still getting the hang of the place, for a stiff track it's hard to come from too far back off the pace. When the ground is like that, being on the pace helps and being on a nice filly is an even bigger help.

"It's such a stiff track, when you turn in on the straight, you're climbing the whole way, and I suppose horses struggle to make up ground on it."

Classic charges to Coral Challenge success

Richard Hannon's talented handicapper Classic made a decent field look pedestrian when making all of the running in the Coral Challenge Handicap at Sandown.

Carrying the familiar colours of Julie Wood, the five-year-old son of Dubawi returned to Sandown having filled the runner-up spot over course and distance last time.

Switched to front-running tactics, Classic looked to be travelling much the best out in front on the approach to the furlong marker before picking up well to score by a length and a quarter under Sean Levey.

Reflecting on the performance of his 6/1 winner, Richard Hannon said: "I was sick of seeing him be unlucky, looking like he has all the ability in the world, we know that.

"Today he looked like he was never going to get beaten. Jack (Hannon's son) said to me a furlong from home 'is Sean OK, he looks like he's injured or something, he's not trying'. He was trying!

"This horse has had a lot of near-misses and he's an extremely talented horse who is by a stallion (Dubawi) where anything is possible.

"He could well turn out to be a Group horse and could come back to seven furlongs no problem – he's got loads of speed and loads of ability."