Racing: New Approach maintained his 100 per cent record with a game success in the Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket.
Giving trainer Jim Bolger and jockey Kevin Manning back-to-back wins in the top two-year-old race of the season after Teofilo 12 months ago, New Approach was made to pull out all the stops by Fast Company.
Brian Meehan's charge put in a strong challenge but was just held by half a length by Bolger's charge, who was sent off the 6-4 favourite. Raven's Pass was third, with Rio De La Plata fourth.
Fast Company was slowly away as Raven's Pass broke well but gave way on the stands side to Luck Money, who took the field along, with Dark Angel prominent in the centre of the course.
Jimmy Fortune drove Raven's Pass into the lead two furlongs out but he could not shake off the opposition.
New Approach, who was held up in the early stages in contrast to his usual front-running style, responded to Manning's hard driving and put his head in front and before battling all the way to keep Fast Company at bay up the hill.
Bolger told Channel 4 Racing: "He's a very, very talented horse. We over-did the settling on him today and it nearly cost us the race, but we know how to solve that problem.
"I had Derbys in mind the last couple of weeks training him and all his work was lobbing and loitering. I knew yesterday when he lobbed up the gallop here that he just might be a little bit tardy."
Manning added: "He ran very lazy today but he has been working that way at home lately. I rode him at home earlier in the week and I told Jim that that he had been working lazily.
"But he did it very well in the end. He's very tough and he was always holding them."