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Grant Cooksley won the Gr.1 Westbury Stud Tarzino Trophy (1400m) as a jockey seven years ago aboard the Shelley Hale-trained Close Up, and on Saturday he will vie to capture the Hastings feature as a trainer.

Last season’s Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) winner Denby Road has returned to work with an eye towards the spring.

George Simon didn’t cover himself in glory in the final stages of his call on the Gr.3 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes, but he had good reason as Denby Road, the horse that he and wife Maryanne bred and race, saluted in the Gr.3

Three-year-old gelding Denby Road is yet another example to never judge a book by its cover.