SIR MARK PRESCOTT has few peers at getting a horse fit to win on its debut and 5 to 2 shot The In Laws proved that point at Folkestone yesterday.

The filly sparked the first leg of a double for the Newmarket handler, clinched by Failed To Hit (5 to 6 favourite) later.

Both were ridden by stable jockey George Duffield, who edged The In Laws ahead at the furlong pole in the John McCarthy Maiden Fillies' Stakes to hold Mutribah, the 7 to 4 favourite, by a neck.

The In Laws may run in a Listed race at Leopardstown on Saturday if she comes out of this event alright, and Prescott said: "She is a half sister to prolific winner Spindrifter, and her mare, Amboselli has had eight foals. This one is her eighth and they have all won.

Duffield threw everything into the finish, getting up close home on Failed To Hit to beat Shavinsky by half a length.

Waders Dream had been second favourite when he ran here on Friday and finished fourth, but this time the Pat Mitchell trained gelding won at 20 to 1, leading well inside the final furlong to beat Scissor Ridge by three quarters of a length.

Princess of Hearts drifted in the market from 11 to 4 to 5 to 1 before the opening Smarden Selling Stakes. But she proved a sweetheart after all, holding off Heavenly Dancer by half a length.

Con Horgan is a Folkestone fan. Rising Spray's win in the Weatherbys Stallion Book Handicap made it four wins from his last five runners at the track.

Rising Spray, the 5 to 2 favourite, who had won at the Kent course last week, followed up for Paul Eddery, the combination mastering leader Greenwich Again at the two furlong marker to go and win by two and a half lengths.

Horgan said: "We are not going to be too greedy with this horse as he should be a really good six year old now we have got him right."

Gay Harwood won on Candle Smoke, trained by her father Guy, in the closing Paul Cook Apprentice Handicap.

She brought the gelding with a strong run to master Jamaican Flight approaching the final furlong to win by six lengths.