Kingscote rides treble and picks up Winter Hill Stakes

Richard Kingscote rode a treble at Windsor on Saturday, including the Winter Hill Stakes, the only Group race to be run at the track this season. The Derby-winning jockey opened his account on 9/4 favourite Cresta in the Royal Windsor August Stakes, winning my more than sixth lengths and trainers Freddie & Martyn Meade will no doubt be aiming their three-yearold at bigger targets in the future. Kingscote also won the next race with 100/30 chance Magical Merlin, trained by Harry & Roger Charlton, taking the second division of the Leger Festival On Sky Sports Racing Novice Stakes by a length from debutant Proverb, the mount of David Probert.

The rider completed his hat-trick on Sir Michael Stoute’s Regal Reality

(9/1) in the Sytner Sunningdale & Maidenhead BWM-sponsored Winter Stakes, holding of 11/10 favourite Grocer Jack by a neck after benefitting from a strongly run race.

Tom Marquand, who rode the runner-up from William Haggas’ inform yard, had earlier won division one of the novice stakes aboard 11/2 Wyoming, trained by Paul & Oliver Cole.

Rabat (8/1) ridden by George Wood, gave trainer Ilka Gansera-Leveque her first-ever winner at Windsor in the Sky Sports Racing 415 Fillies’ Handicap.

Snapcracklepop, trained by William Muir & Chris Grassick and owned by the former, won the Sky Sports Racing Virgin 535 Handicap in the hands of Benoit De La Sayette, giving the young rider another boost in his bid to win the apprentice jockeys championship this season. It was his fifth win at Windsor this year.