Champion jockey Kevin Darley was in double form at Newmarket on Sunday to show he is not going to give up his title without a fight.
He moved on to the 84-winner mark in the championship with wins on Grizedale and Albuhera.
The Ed Dunlop-trained Grizedale easily landed odds of 4-11 in the Ballygallon Median Auction Maiden Stakes, scoring by three lengths on goingofficially described as good to firm, firm in places.
Grizedale was making amends for being disqualified on his debut. Dunlop said: "He did it nicely enough today. The ground wasn't really to his liking- a big, heavy horse like him".
Darley quickly completed his near 17-1 double on Mark Johnston's Albuhera in the following Sainsbury's Rated Stakes.
The winner was gelded after running unplaced in the Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot and the operation has certainly done the trick as the 12-1chance quickened a length and a half clear of Scheming in the closing stages.
But Darley finished the day 10 adrift of title race leader Kieren Fallon, who steered John Jenkins's Final Settlement to victory in theconcluding Conference And Banqueting At Newmarket Handicap.