Comet is star turn for Jim Goldie with handicap win at Musselburgh

Uplawmoor trainer also bred gelding

Nineohtwooneoh clears the last on his way to victory at Southwell. Picture: Edward Whitaker/Pool via Getty

As well as saddling the 5-2 winner, the Uplawmoor trainer also bred the gelding who was sired by his own stallion, Orientor.

“I trained the mare Primo Heights as well so it’s a good result all round,” Goldie said. “All his five wins might have come at five furlongs, but he has won at six and we may go down that road.

“He was a bit unlucky not to have finished closer at Newcastle last time and he has come on for that run as it was his first race since March.”

Hawick-born jockey Jason Hart was on the mark with 6-5 favourite Disco Beats in the opening British Stallion Studs EBF Median Auction Maiden Stakes.

Trained at Malton by John Quinn, the colt seemed to benefit from dropping back to the minimum trip as he beat Shawshank by a comfortable length and a quarter.

Hart said: “He had two runs under his belt which is a massive difference for a two-year-old. I got a nice lead and in the end he’s won pretty nicely. Mr Quinn’s horses are in pretty decent form at the moment.”

Keith Dalgleish’s horses are beginning to reach their peak and Amber Storm slammed her rivals by lengths in the Good To Go On Racing TV Maiden Stakes.

Nibbled into 15-2, the Carluke raider swooped on the wide outside to beat Egrecio by three lengths. “They went hard up front and she’s picked up well,” Sanderson said. “She’s improved for her debut at Haydock and they have done well with her at home as she can be quirky – she swerved and dumped me after the line! Our horses are coming into form and this filly should continue to go the right way.”

There was a grandstand finish to the racingtv.com Handicap as Gabrial The Tiger nailed Muntadab right on the line to prevail by a nose.

Trained by Richard Fahey, the 3-1 chance was a close fifth in last week’s Wokingham Consolation Handicap at Royal Ascot and was making his first appearance at Musselburgh.

Winning jockey Tony Hamilton said: “He wasn’t the quickest out of the stalls but he’s finished really well. Passing the line, it was a close call and I didn’t know if I had got there or not.”

The easiest winner of the day was Mark Johnston-trained Night Moment who sauntered home by seven lengths in the seven-furlong maiden for juveniles.

Joe Fanning had the odds-on favourite in front from the start and the pair quickened away approaching the final furlong to beat Infant Hercules convincingly.

At Southwell, meanwhile, Nineohtwooneoh gave Paul Nicholls a flying start to the new National Hunt season with victory in the first race on the resumption of British jumps racing.

The 2-1 favourite scored emphatically on his fencing debut in the Sign Solutions Nottingham Novices’ Handicap Chase, as he and jockey Harry Cobden evaded drama around them in an eventful contest. For 11-time champion trainer Nicholls, it was the perfect start to a campaign delayed by two months following the interruption of jumps racing which began in March during the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nineohtwooneoh’s main market rival Oxwich Bay departed mid-race when unseating his jockey, 
Adam Wedge, as he jinked approaching a fence on the first circuit.

The favourite, racing in the famous colours of JP McManus, then managed to keep clear of potential interference from the loose horse in the back straight – and came home 10 lengths clear of outsider Torquay.

Winning jockey Cobden was delighted to make a successful return at his first attempt, on a promising novice.

“It’s good to be back and good to get going with a winner,” he said. “He got better and better as he got going, he had a bit of a look at the last but he’s one that will go forward.”

Assistant trainer Harry Derham was relieved to be back too for the first NH fixture in Britain for more than 100 days.

He said of the lockdown experience: “It has been tricky – but it’s been the same for everyone.

“We’ve been quite lucky that this hit over summer. The Flat yards have had more disruption than us.

“Next week it will start to get really busy, because all the winter horses are starting to come back in. We’re really looking forward to that.”