BERRY COLT LAYS DOWN LAW

Terry Herbert-Jackson is hoping Hume's Law's success in the Turnstile Maiden Auction Stakes at Beverley today is a good omen for Romantic Myth's chance in the £125,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury on Saturday.

Hume's Law got the better of Amelia inside the final furlong and kept going under John Carroll to hold off the fast-finishing Once Removed by a neck.

Herbert-Jackson has the winner and Romantic Myth in partnership with Terry Holdcroft and said: 'Things have been going well for us.

'Romantic Myth won the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot and then Wally McArthur won at Hamilton the other week and can win again tomorrow (at Doncaster) - and Rosselli was only just beaten at Chester on Saturday.

'Tim (Easterby) says Romantic Myth is in good form and we just hope she can do the business on Saturday.'

Hume's Law is trained by Alan Berry who said: 'With hindsight we should not have run him at Pontefract last time, it was really soft there and he didn't like it when he ran on that sort of ground first time out.

'We hope to win a little nursery now.'

The John Norton-trained Kagoshima defied top weight in game fashion under Ollie Pears in the 115th Year of the Watt Memorial Handicap.

The Barnsley trainer's son, also called John, said: 'This is a super horse and the jockey gave him a blinder of a ride.

'He will be entered for the Brown Jack Stakes at Ascot a week on Friday and hopefully he will get a good gallop there - he is a good old-fashioned stayer.'

Apprentice Dean Mernagh certainly earned his fee on the David Barron-trained Africa who eventually won the Cattle Lines Claiming Stakes in comfortable style.

Africa threw Mernagh in the parade ring and then deposited him on the ground when they went out onto the track, but she behaved herself well in the race itself.

Barron said: 'I suppose she is a typically sprint-bred three-year-old filly.

'She had a big gash in her quarters when she backed onto a post at Southwell earlier in the year - she had to have several stitches - and I could not believe how quickly it healed, she was off the track for only a month.'

Charles Smith saddled two runners in the Struthers & Carter Handicap and he was far from surprised that Off Hire came off much better than his stable companion Dazzling Quintet, taking the honours by a head from Polar Mist.

Off Hire was brought with a well-timed run by apprentice Robbie Fitzpatrick and Smith said: 'The draw is so important, the other filly (Dazzling Quintet, who beat only one home) is the better.

'But she was drawn four and if a horse is not drawn above 11 in a sprint here it has no chance.

'Off Hire was in stall 14 so he had the best of it and he will now run in a five-furlong 0-65 race at Wolverhampton in three weeks' time.