RED RULES FOR EDDERY

First-season trainer Robert Eddery enjoyed a first winner at York when Red Quartet came out on top in a competitive race for the TSG Nursery Stakes.

The brother of former champion jockey Pat Eddery has now had five winners from a string of just 10 horses since taking out a licence in April.

Red Quartet (28-1) got home by a length from the 5-2 favourite Radio Gaga, with Deepsand third and Jessie's Spirit fourth.

"I thought he did well to win at Brighton as he was growing a bit," said Eddery.

"I wanted to bring him here as you have to win at these places to get noticed.

"I don't think he's got anything to prove this season and I need a good horse for next year."

Radio Gaga's jockey Graham Gibbons was banned two days (October 21 and 24) for careless riding.

Jet Away looked a different class to his rivals as he took off to win the Garbutt & Elliott Conditions Stakes.

He could be named the winner a long way as Tom Queally oozed confidence and allowed him to cruise into the lead.

The 9-4 favourite, trained by Henry Cecil, went on to score by nine lengths from the pace-setting Rasmy, with Treasury Devil third.

"We thought he might be a proper horse at the beginning of the year, but having started off very well when wining impressively at Lingfield he just lost his way a bit in the summer for whatever reason," said Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Khalid Abdullah.

"Prince Khalid has always had tremendous faith in this horse and he's been proved right.

"It's hard to say what the value of the form is.

"What we were pleased with was that he settled very well, travelled very well and stretched when he needed to - you can ask no more than that.

"He'll probably run again as he's had a fairly light season.

"We'll step him up to Listed or Group Three class."

Vainglory (9-1) got up in the dying strides to deny Extraterrestrial in the Acorn Web Offset Handicap.

The runners were strung out in the early stages as Snow Bay and Clockmaker set a furious gallop but the field started to bunch in the straight.

Laura Pike, who claims 5lb, made stealthy progress on David Simcock's seven-year-old to snatch the spoils by a neck, with Hot Rod Mamma a length and three-quarters away in third and Circumvent fourth.

Pike, 27, is apprenticed to the Simcock stable in her second stint as a jockey and was having her fifth winner of the year.

"I took three and a half years off. I got a bit heavy and wasn't as dedicated as I am now," she said.

"I got a job in an office which looked good on my CV. Then I went to Dubai for a holiday, I got the racing bug again and started riding again in 2009."

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