By Peter Moore at Lingfield Park Friday 20th March 2026

St Faz has taken to a new start in Britain like a duck to water after recording his second all-weather success on the bounce for Adrian Keatley.

The six-year-old competed in a Graded chase for former trainer Gordon Elliott just two months ago but has flourished since moving to Keatley’s North Yorkshire base and landed the 2m apprentice handicap with one and a half lengths to spare, easing down under Conor Whiteley on just his second start for the yard.

The win followed on from another tidy success at Southwell ten days ago and Keatley is keen to strike while the iron is hot by sending the handicapper back to that track next week.

“We’re delighted with him,” Keatley said. “It’s the first horse we’ve trained for Aidan Ryan, so it’s a great result to get two on the bounce.

“We’ve got him in next Thursday and hopefully he’ll come home in good nick and we can back him up and see if we can get our hands on another bonus.”

While St Faz maintained his perfect record on the all-weather, Keatley is also looking forward to getting him back over jumps, with the six-year-old having won over hurdles and fences in Ireland.

“He should make up into a nice dual-purpose horse for the summer,” the trainer added. “We’ll have a bit of fun with him over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we’ll be back at Lingfield for Good Friday and then we’ll be looking at some jumps.”

Politely was a welcome winner for trainer Martyn Meade, who picked up his first winner for 273 days after the filly broke her maiden tag at the third attempt under Joe Leavy.

Having been off for 228 days, Leavy came with a late run on her first run on the AW to power clear in impressive fashion to win by five lengths.

Andrew Balding’s flying start to the year continued after A Taste Of Glory made all seal a neck victory over Al Azad to give Balding his 35th winner of 2026.

Having finished a good second over C&D in February, Royal Jet went one better to land the 7f handicap by a short head under William Carson.

Salaria made it three wins out of her last four runs after picking up well at the line to score by one and a quarter lengths with Kieran Shoemark in the saddle, with the drop down in trip working for the Charlie Clover trained four-year-old.

Tony Carroll made it a double on the day after Royal Jet scored earlier; it was the turn of Wedgewood to land the odds by half a length with Luke Morris aboard.

Goldmoyne made it four wins in a row after hanging on to score by a neck from Maximising in the finale on the card.