Racing News: Hawk Wing put up a breathtaking display to win the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday. The 2 to 1 favourite, trained by Aidan O'Brien and ridden by Michael Kinane, won by a remarkable 11 lengths, a record for the Group One race over the straight mile.

Where Or When, Hawk Wing's conqueror at Ascot last year, was a distant second with Olden Times eight lengths further back in third ahead of the disappointing Domedriver.

Only six ran as Duck Row was an early non-runner and Desert Deer refused to go into the stalls.

With Mark Johnston's front-runner out of the contest, Kinane was forced to abandon plans and immediately took Hawk Wing to the head of affairs in the centre of the course to ensure a true gallop.

He was tracked by his main market rivals, the French-trained Domedriver and Where Or When, but when Kinane asked the four-year-old to lengthen over two furlongs out, nothing could go with him. He pulled further and further away and his time was just one and a half seconds outside the course record at one minute, 36.78 seconds.

The only previous Irish-trained winner of the Lockinge was Bluerullah, owned and trained by Seamus McGrath, in 1967.

Kinane's only moment of concern came at the start, when Desert Deer, who had been expected to make the running, refused to enter the stalls. "I was a little bit worried when the other horse decided not to take part, as I was going to follow him," he said.

"So then I thought to myself I was just going to let this horse stride. Going to the three I had to let him go - I couldn't hold on to him any more." Kinane pushed out to the line and revealed that he had no idea how far Hawk Wing was in front. "There was a hell of a crosswind out there, and the rain was in my face. I was on my own, and I wasn't sure to look round," he said.

Hawk Wing was finally justifying all his connections' high expectations after defeats by his stablemates Rock Of Gibraltar and High Chaparral in last year's Sagitta 2,000 Guineas and Vodafone Derby respectively.

O'Brien revealed that the colt had had a few minor problems following a tiring three-year-old career, which had yielded just one win, the Group One Coral Eurobet Eclipse: "During the winter all the horses were checked over and little things that had bothered them and that they had picked up were sorted.

"This fella had a few little things, like all the horses after going through the year. You never know until they run but he's a horse that if you watch him at home, he always quickens up. This year he has been working like a dream."

Next stop for Hawk Wing could be Royal Ascot, where the options are the one-mile Queen Anne Stakes and the mile-and-a-quarter Prince of Wales's Stakes.

O'Brien and Kinane completed a double when the two-year-old Grand Reward made a successful debut in the Cantor Sport Maiden Stakes. O'Brien confirmed that Grand Reward, who beat Farewell Gift by a length and three-quarters, will have Ascot options.