Lucentio completes a hat-trick of Windsor wins

Lucentio beats the King and Queen's Reaching High at Windsor on Monday. Picture: Helen Edwards

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Lucentio completed a hat-trick of Windsor wins at last Monday's meeting, writes Dave Wright.

The three-year-old trained by John and Thady Gosden followed up his two wins in May by landing the Download The Fitzdares App Now Handicap in the hands of Kieran Shoemark.

The 5/2 joint-favourite was always up with the front of the six runners and kept on well to finish half-a-length ahead of Reaching High, owned by the King and Queen, who must have

been disappointed with how their runners performed at Royal Ascot last week.

It was the second win of the evening for the Gosden/Shoemark combination. They had earlier landed the Novices Stakes with Westridge (6/1), who earned a short-head victory

over stable-mate Roi De France, the 2/5 favourite. It was the three-year-old's first success in three starts.

This week's round of the Fitzdares Sprint Series Handicap went to Woolhampton (11/1), trained by Rod Millman with young Oliver Searle in the saddle.

Earlier, Millman and Searle were second with Bama Lama, who lost out by a neck to Zaman Daar (100/30), ridden by Ryan Kavanagh, in the Royal Windsor Supports Racing Staff Week Apprentice Handicap.

Jockey Hector Crouch made two visits to the winner's enclosure. He steered home Ralph Beckett's newcomer Priapos (4/1) in the British Stallion Studs EBF Newcomers' Maiden Stakes, and followed up on the Michael Bell trained Wootton's Jewel (9/2) in the Carrington Wealth Management Handicap.

The three-year-old, winning for the first time, was returning to racing after a 290-day break.

Oisin Murphy guided home 7/5 favourite So Obsessed for Marco Botti in the Free Digital Racecard At raceday-ready.com Handicap.

It was Murphy's 10th win at the track this season, taking him level at the top of the table with Rossa Ryan.