DO0M’S DAY AT GOODWOOD FOR THE CRISFORDS

DAVID YATES

JADOOMI put Simon and Ed Crisford in the party mood when leading home a 1-2 for the father-and-son training team in Goodwood’s Celebration Mile.

Andrea Atzeni made the running on stablecompanion Finest

Sound, and had evenmoney favourite Mutasaabeq in trouble entering the final quarter-mile of the William Hill-sponsored Group 2 test.

But William Buick, anxious to keep close tabs on the leader, brought his mount to challenge running to the furlong pole and 100-30 chance Jadoomi forged to the front close home for a neck win.

“Both of them ran a huge race,” observed Ed Crisford.

“Jadoomi loved that ground and stayed well.

“Finest Sound has run an absolute blinder and I thought he’d nicked it, but Jadoomi just outstayed him at the very end.”

The winner is now set for an autumn campaign abroad, rain-softened ground permitting.

And Crisford added: “Finest Sound has had a few races in quick succession, so we’ll see, but with Jadoomi you’ve got races like the Prix Dollar on Arc weekend and he’s also in the Boomerang Stakes at Leopardstown.

“He does like this softer ground, so I think we’ll follow the rain.”

Hoo Ya Mal is still on course for a historic double – the St Leger and the Melbourne Cup – as he overcame a scare after justifying odds of 30-100 under Buick in the Group 3 William Hill March Stakes.

Buick, whose relentless surge towards a first jockeys’ title was fuelled by a 472.2-1 fivetimer, dismounted returning to the winner’s enclosure after the

Derby runner-up, having his second start since a switch from Andrew Balding to George Boughey, had accounted for Perfect Alibi by two-and-a-half lengths.

But Boughey said: “He’s fine. He’s just overreached coming past the line. He’s pulled a shoe off and the other seems to be hanging off, but he’s in good shape.”

Hoo Ya Mal, left unchanged by bookmakers at 8-1 for

the final Classic of 2022 at Doncaster

on September 10, will then join Australian training legend Gai Waterhouse for ‘the race that stops a nation’ at Flemington on November 1.

“He was stepping up to 15 furlongs which certainly defies his pedigree,” added Boughey.

“It was softer ground and a trip he hadn’t run over before but William was delighted.”

SAM MAXIMUS gave rising star James Horton a first Listed success yesterday — five months after the Middlehambased trainer’s first runner.

The three-year-old led late on to beat Vadream by a head in the Jenningsbet Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket.

IT’S ALL ABOUT MI Jadoomi (right) on his way to victory