Luke Catton

John and Thady Gosden trainee Oxagon (Frankel) shaped with a deal of promise when fifth in a hot winner-producing Newmarket maiden earlier this month and delivered a stunning performance in his second start to earn a TDN Rising Star rosette in Wednesday evening's Chasemore Farm EBF Novice Stakes at Sandown. He becomes the 44th Rising Star for his sire and second this season after Treanmor joined the roll of honour in May. The 10-3 third favourite broke swiftly and gained an immediate advantage, setting steady fractions, in this seven-furlong heat...

From being branded a bit of a tearaway, Quinault (Ger) is now simply a runaway winner. In fact, he is the winningmost horse in Britain and Ireland this season, with seven victories from his 10 starts in 2023 for Newmarket trainer Stuart Williams. The Oasis Dream (GB) three-year-old racked up an impressive string of six wins from April 27 to July 13 before finishing third in the Shergar Cup Sprint. Last weekend he returned to Ascot, and to the winner's enclosure, in the hands of Williams's apprentice Luke Catton, who...