The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

Europe and America prepare to clash in biennial Ryder Cup.

Deadly duo combine to record a 95-1 five timer at Perth’s Glorious Finale

- ROSS ALEXANDER

Gordon Elliott sealed the 2018 leading trainers’ title at Perth yesterday when teaming up with Richard Johnson for a 95-1 five-timer with Dinons, Creadan Grae, Global Jackpot, Cubamania and Jaunty Thor.

The pair also enjoyed five-timers at Perth on August 17 and Johnson said: “It took me 25 years to ride my first fivetimer so I never thought I’d have another one about a month later! Gordon is a lovely man to ride for as his horses are so fit and he puts them in the right races.”

Tim O’Driscoll’s Dinons, sent off at 1-7, earned himself a trip to Cheltenham after extending his winning sequence to four when making all to score by 23 lengths in the threemile novices’ hurdle.

Creadan Grae, runner-up over hurdles at Perth earlier in the month, returned to fences with a vengeance when slamming Fiddlers Bow by threeand-three-quarter lengths in the Lord Mansfield Memorial Handicap Chase.

Global Jackpot completed a hat-trick before Cubamania and Jaunty Thor completed Elliott and Johnson’s domination.

YOURTIMEIS­NOW can take the next step up the ladder and bag her hattrick in the process in the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket today.

Roger Varian’s charge took a couple of runs to really get rolling, but following her first success at Newbury in August, she certainly did not look back when making a successful move into Group Three company at Salisbury.

She made all over six furlongs that day and kept finding plenty for pressure, holding Lady Aria by a half-length to give the impression a move up in trip would be well within her compass.

The aforementi­oned LADY ARIA will likely be a short price for the McCaffrey Mortgages “The Insurance Specialist­s” British EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Haydock but is very hard to oppose.

SELECTIONS: HAYDOCK: 1.35 Motahassen, 2.05 Reactive, 2.40 Lady Aria, 3.15 Amplify, 3.50 She Can Boogie, 4.25 Canford Heights, 4.55 Fondest, 5.25 Overtrumpe­d.

NEWMARKET: 1.50 Agrotera, 2.25 Sun Maiden, 3.00 YOURTIMEIS­NOW (NAP), 3.35 Regal Reality, 4.10 Skardu, 4.45 Raheen House, 5.15 Capton.

DOUBLE: Yourtimeis­now and Lady Aria.

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