RACING: Mark Johnston breathed a huge sigh of relief as Bandari got back on the big-race trail with a clear victory in the Peugeot Gordon Stakes at Goodwood yesterday.
And he celebrated by landing the following ladbrokes.com Prestige Stakes with Scott's View to complete a 15 to 1 double and take his tally of winners at the meeting since 1997 to 17.
The Middleham trainer admitted he had been "very nervous" before Bandari's comeback as the colt had been bought by Hamdan Al Maktoum prior to being supplemented for £90,000 into the Epsom Classic only to trail in a well-beaten eighth.
Always in front under Willie Supple, he quickened smartly once challenged two furlongs out and came home a very easy seven-length winner from First Charter.
Elusive City looked a colt of great potential as he strode away with the Gerrard Investment Management Richmond Stakes for Kieren Fallon.
But exactly what the future holds for Elusive City is uncertain as he is owned by the Thoroughbred Corporation, whose assets may reportedly be dissolved after the death of founder Prince Ahmed Salman last week.
