Watch out for Bustler!

It’s a simple scenario for co-trainers Dan and Ben Pearce at Ascot tomorrow as they chase down a feature race with Let’s Galahvant in the Group 2 Ted Van Heemst Stakes (2100m).

Trainer Neville Parnham and his jockey-son Brad have made the Fairetha Stakes (1400m) a race of their own in recent years, the latest addition to their fine record in the Listed feature for three-year-olds is classy colt September Born who stamped his WA Guineas (1600m) credentials with a stylish victory.

Champion jockey William Pike added another milestone to his glittering career record after the completion of the 2023-24 season at Belmont on Wednesday.

Any notion that rain affected ground will halt the winning momentum of revived gelding Western Empire in Saturday’s Group 3 Hyperion Stakes (1600m) at Belmont has been hosed down by trainer, Grant Williams.