Hannon buzzing after King Of Change win

Richard Hannon’s 2,000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change made an encouraging return to action on his first run since that splendid Newmarket effort when winning yesterday’s Chasemore Farm Fortune Stakes at Sandown Park with something to spare.

Jockey Sean Levey always looked confident and after hitting the front just over a furlong out, Levey only had to push the colt out to beat the well-backed favourite Turgenev by 1¼ lengths.

Hannon said: “We are pleased. He has been working very well and it is nice to see him run a big race.”

“He will have needed that, so it was pleasing. He has got a few nice entries and they are all possibilities at the moment. He will appreciate a bit of give in the ground and next year will probably be his year. We have a fresh horse to head into the autumn with. It was nice for him to prove the Guineas run was not a fluke.”

John Gosden’s exciting juvenile Palace Pier won his second race in as many starts when hacking up by 4½ lengths in the Max Patel Wealth Manager Of Choice Novice Stakes. However, despite the comfortable success, bookmakers were generally unimpressed and he remains a 16-1 chance for next year’s 2,000 Guineas.

Gosden, who went on to complete a Sandown treble with Magical Rhythms and Seccellus, who both got up late to win, was also on the mark at Yarmouth when the improving three-year-old Fanny Logan landed the Listed John Musker Fillies’ Stakes with a degree of comfort.

Joseph O’brien saddled his first two runners at the track with Cnoc An Oir faring best of his pair, finishing just over five lengths behind the winner in fifth.