Pabusar has potential to deliver

The Oasis Dream gelding won a Goodwood maiden in very taking style before heading up to Yorkshire for a Listed race at the Ebor meeting. He was short of room at a crucial stage but still mounted a very bold bid, narrowly going down to John Quinn's smart New Planet. New Planet was not disgraced at all in the Flying Childers when third, only a length behind the recently- retired Zebedee, which gives the form a solid look.

Pabusar comes up against plenty of exciting youngsters in this Group Three but looks to have more potential than most.

Redford will rightly have plenty of followers in the Models 1 Bengough Stakes but it might be just a step too far. Instead, Godolphin's Huntdown could be worth chancing after he was noted running a fine race behind stablemate Delegator first time out this season.

Mount Athos can regain the winning thread in the ladbrokes.com Stakes. He had impressed when winning at York's Ebor meeting but looked far from straightforward when finishing eighth at Doncaster last time. This Montjeu colt evidently has talent in spades though and it is worth a risk that he is back in the right frame of mind.

Sir Michael Stoute's Tazahum has plenty to find on the figures in the Carraig Insurance Hyperion Conditions Stakes but he was a very impressive winner of his only race to date.

Michael Jarvis' Toolain can land the Jaguar XJ Autumn Stakes, while David O'Meara's Descaro can make it a hat-trick in the Coral Stakes at York.

Since stepped up in trip he has improved no end and he won with any amount in hand last time at Redcar. A 7lb rise might not be enough to stop him.

Poet's Place can get back to winning ways in the Coral Sprint Trophy.

David Barron's four-year-old looked a massively improved performer when flashing home to win the Portland at Doncaster but his middle draw in the Ayr Gold Cup did him no favours and it is certainly too early to give up on him just yet.

There is a decent National Hunt card at Chepstow, where Tom George's Olofi can get his campaign off to a winning start. Fourth in a Grade One at Aintree last spring, he looked to have plenty of scope.

Donald McCain can enjoy double success with Drill Sergeant the pick in the Jane Woodward 40th Birthday Novices' Hurdle at Bangor, while Twentynineblack should take all the beating in the Metrocentre Always A Winner Beginners' Chase at Hexham.

At York yesterday, Justonefortheroad (25-1), part-owned by former England striker Alan Shearer, got the better of Eton Rifles to land the Acorn Web Offset Handicap.

"I backed it, but I was slightly worried when it went out to 25s, but I'm delighted," said Shearer. "You never know with the ground. It was sticky, but the horse has run a great race and the jockey has done everything he said he was going to do. I couldn't have asked for anymore. I'm the only one of the three in the syndicate here today. The other two had gone golfing to Spain for the weekend. I held hope they had made the wrong decision - and it's raining in Spain."

Waseet (18-1) pounced late to upstage the market leaders Kings Gambit and Kirklees in the Garbutt & Elliott Conditions Stakes.

Those two paid the penalty for having a ding-dong battle up the straight while Richard Hills brought John Dunlop's colt with a steady run down the centre of the track. Waseet wore the front two down in the last 100 yards to grab the spoils by three-quarters of a length from Kings Gambit with Kirklees in third. "We knew he would go on the ground," said Hills. "He's been riddled with problems the whole of his three-year-old career but John said to me he was probably the best he'd had him all year and he was proved right."

The pint-sized Indian Ballad showed the heart of a lion to beat Breezolini by a nose in the TSG Nursery. The horses struggled in the testing autumn ground but Indian Ballad (8-1) found that little bit extra for jockey Graham Gibbons. The Ed McMahon-trained juvenile won by the minimum margin from Breezolini whose rider Amy Ryan put up 3lb overweight with Maggie Mey third.