Godolphin at the double

Bin Surooor takes 2008 tally to 44 wins

Last updated: 10th October 2008

Godolphin at the double

Double win: Dettori and bin Suroor

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Godolphin ended the 2008 Flat season on a high when promising juveniles Musleh and Bab Al Salam scored a 7-1 double to take both divisions of the GSE Group Maiden Stakes at Lingfield.

Frankie Dettori steered both to victory, with trainer Saeed bin Suroor now sitting in 10th place in the Trainers' Championship after taking his tally for the year to 44.

After a promising debut at the track last month, Musleh started as 8-13 favourite and, after going on at halfway, had little trouble maintaining the gallop for a length success.

Tom Keddy's Pedasus caught the eye in finishing second at 66-1, with Kevin Ryan's Ysing Yi a short head back in third.

Bin Suroor said of the Group One-entered colt: "He was very relaxed when I saddled him and in the paddock which shows he has improved.

"He showed a good turn of foot, has plenty of speed and will make a miler next year.

"We will see how he is and perhaps find another race this year. He is in the Racing Post Trophy but that is a tough race and we'll have to see what happens."

Bin Suroor earlier witnessed Bab Al Salam make a successful debut, the 4-1 chance benefiting from a positive ride to win by a length and a quarter.

He added: "He is my favourite two-year-old and he is a horse I have always liked.

"He has been weak so we had to be patient with him but he is still a big baby, although he is strong and honest.

"We will try to find a better race for him before the end of the season."

Hard work

Keddy later went one better as some hard work on Piscean's stalls behaviour paid off with an 11-2 success in the Philip Hall Memorial Handicap.

He said: "He has always had a problem with the stalls but we have done a lot of work on that.

"He has got a good future sprinting and will win the Portland next year! It is a race I have had on my mind for a long time."

After being out of luck with a couple of fancied chances in the opening two races, Marcus Tregoning tasted success with first-time-out Hazy Dancer (11-1) in the Mark Bausola Maiden Fillies' Stakes.

Trainer Peter Winkworth took the Kent Land Reclamation Handicap with the Luke Morris-ridden Safari Mischief (15-2), while Jeremy Noseda's The Which Doctor (11-2) won the PML Group-Change Management Handicap.

Ryan Moore rode the latter and completed a 64-1 double as Sir Michael Stoute's E Major ran away with the GSE Building & Civil Engineering Handicap.