Mithqaal seals Silver Cambridgeshire payday for new owners

A round-up of the rest of the action from the second day of the Cambridgeshire Meeting at Newmarket.

Mithqaal won the Shadwell Farm Handicap - better known as the Silver Cambridgeshire - for Nottinghamshire trainer Mick Appleby.

Drawn in stall 18 and ridden by Danny Brock, the bottom weight proved two and a half lengths too sharp for Yorkshire challenger Cote d'Azur on his first start since being bought out of Owen Burrows' yard.

Appleby said: "We bought him for the all-weather but he was going so well at home we thought we'd go for the turf and he just crept in.

"There's a lot of improvement in him and the way he works at home he's a very nice horse. He cost 26,000 Guineas so he's paid for himself now.

"He'll still go on the all-weather, although I might struggle to find races at Southwell now and he could end up as a Dubai horse on the dirt."

Time Zone (14/1) produced a decisive turn of foot to make a winning debut in division one of the Derrinstown EBF Stallions Maiden Stakes.

Peter Chapple-Hyam's youngster quickened well to lead over a furlong out under James Doyle and pull away from long-time leader Doctor Bartolo to score by a length and a half.

Red Label stayed on nicely from the rear for third spot.

Chapple-Hyam said: "He always worked well but he is just weak and I left him a little bit undone.

"He has always gone nicely and he looks like a nice horse. How good the race is, only time will tell. There are no big plans for him yet."

Via Serendipity (11/8 favourite) made it third-time lucky after two promising efforts when making virtually all the running in division two.

Ryan Moore had to push Hugo Palmer's colt out to keep Mudallel at bay by three-quarters of a length.

He said: "I'm delighted with him. He is very much next year's horse. Who knows what he will turn into.

"The difficult thing with a three-year-old is you either go the handicap route or shoot for the stars as there is nothing in between.

"If he got rated 100 then we would have a look at something like the Free Handicap.

"If he got rated between 87 and 89 we could win one then go for the Britannia."

Dal Harraild fended off the game Barsanti to win the Listed Mukhadram Godolphin Stakes for red-hot trainer William Haggas.

It was a two-horse race a long way from home, but the year-younger horse eventually had the final word when it mattered.

The 9/4 favourite drew two and a quarter lengths clear under Pat Cosgrave, though the runner-up lost little in defeat.

Haggas said: "He is a lovely horse and he is improving. I don't see any point in carrying on with him (this season) but there is a lot to like about this fellow.

"Barsanti is not a bad horse and I thought he had come there to challenge him but he went again."

The trainer said he blamed himself for Dai Harraild's previous defeat at Ascot.

"He had a touch of ringworm and we had to back off him for a while and I might just have left him a bit short for that race," he said. "We haven't missed a piece of work with him since and I thought he looked as well as I have seen him all season in the paddock.

"Next year's Melbourne Cup has been mentioned to me but it's not something I know a great deal about, although I would love to have the right sort of horse to take there one day."