AIDAN O'BRIEN and Johnny Murtagh rely on Halfway To Heaven as they bid to keep their Group One bandwagon rolling in today's Blue Square Nassau Stakes at Goodwood and it would be a brave man to back against them.
O'Brien will be seeking a 17th success at the highest level this year while Murtagh will be hoping to seal the Glorious Goodwood top jockey title after a raft of winners throughout the week.
The Ballydoyle duo have already bagged the Sussex Stakes with Henrythenavigator this week and Halfway To Heaven will try to make it a double as she steps up to 10 furlongs.
The Pivotal filly has been off the track since notching a gutsy win in the Irish 1,000 Guineas and she demonstrated her credentials before that by finishing third behind top French filly Zarkava in their equivalent.
With her victory at the Curragh coming on rattling quick ground, Murtagh is not concerned by the prospect of fast conditions in Sussex.
"She won't mind the ground. She likes good ground but a shower of rain would not do her any harm," said Murtagh.
The sponsors make Halfway To Heaven their 4 to 1 second-favourite behind Coronation Stakes winner Lush Lashes.
Jim Bolger's filly is the 13 to 8 market leader following her Royal meeting victory and previous demolition job in the Musidora Stakes at York.
Meanwhile, Roger Charlton served another ace by capturing the £150,000 totesport Mile for the second year in succession, this time with Prince Khalid Abdullah's Fifteen Love.
John Livock is the man responsible for the majority of Charlton's tennis-named runners, and his dark blue and grey silks were carried to victory 12 months ago by Third Set.
The colours were different on this occasion, but the result the same as Steve Drowne weaved a passage through a packed field to claim the valuable pot by a head from 4 to 1 favourite Masaalek.
Like Third Set, who captured the totesport International prior to the Mile, the 5 to 1 winner had also landed another significant event when winning the Britannia at Royal Ascot.
And he kept the trend-followers happy when continuing the high-draw domination of the race on the Downs, with no horse since the turn of the century visiting the winner's enclosure after breaking from stall 15 or below.
The winner is a son of Point Given, hence the tennis connection in his name.
