Epsom trainer Simon Dow chose to attend last night's meeting at Goodwood rather than Newmarket's afternoon card, and missed Edan Heights' victory in the feature 49's Arena Travel Rated Stakes.

The six-year-old, fifth and seventh on his two outings so far this season, was accordingly sent off the 16 to 1 outsider of the field, reduced to five as Mersey Beat refused to enter the starting stalls.

But the bay, tracking the pace set by 9 to 4 market leader Mister Benjamin, went to the front just inside the three-furlong marker and, kept going by 5 lb claimer Paul Doe, strode up the hill to beat the favourite by two lengths.

Dow and Doe also teamed up with Facile Tigre a 3 to 1 favourite for the five-furlong Girdlestone Pumps Handicap.

The combination showed prominently early on but could do no more through the final quarter-mile as Gipsy Moth and Walter Swinburn came through to beat top-weight Brimstone by two and a half lengths.

Brian Meehan, welcoming his sixth domestic winner of the last fortnight, believes the winner could prove to be better than a handicapper.

Apprentice Richard Mullen broke a long losing spell in the saddle when Dry Lightning made full use of a drop in class to take the opening Papworth Trust Claiming Stakes.

Mullen (21), who is attached to Michael Bell's yard, had not partnered a winner since riding the trainer's Magic Rainbow to victory in the Coral Sprint on the Rowley Mile course at the end of last month.

But, having taken Bell's Dry Lightning, the 11 to 4 favourite, to the front with three of the race's 10 furlongs remaining, Mullen drove his mount out to hold the late challenge of King Priam by a neck.

The jockey was narrowly denied a double when his mount in the Port of Felixstowe Handicap, 20 to 1 outsider Mark of Prophet, went down by a head to Billaddie and Jimmy Quinn.

The race had widely been expected to go to Teroom, the 11 to 8 favourite.

But the son of Mtoto, owned like his father by Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maktoum, trained by Alec Stewart and ridden by Michael Roberts, was found wanting for stamina over the mile and a half.

Sheikh Ahmed, Stewart and Roberts did combine to win the European Breeders Fund Marshall Of Cambridge MG Maiden Stakes with newcomer Dehoush, who arrived late to beat Black Silk by a length.

Mark Tompkins' Qilin, outclassed in the 1,000 Guineas and Jersey Stakes this year, took advantage of the drop in class of the concluding Sunley Fillies' Conditions Stakes.

Things can only get better for Newmarket's newest trainer Gregory Chi Ho Chung after his first runner Gold Chance finished last in the EBF Marshall of Cambridge Maiden yesterday afternoon.

But the master of Linden Lodge Stables, formerly run by Ron Boss, did not expect to hit the target at the first attempt with his two-year-old debutant.

"We knew he would need the outing and we expect him to come on a lot. And this could turn out to be a hot race," said Chung, 26.

Gold Chance, a 25 to 1 outsider ridden by Oscar Urbina, was in the front rank for the first half of the six-furlong contest, but quickly dropped back to the rear in the race won by Dehoush.

Chung was born in England although he spent some of his childhood on the former colony.