Racing: Catlin pounces late

Mick Channon enjoyed a welcome change of fortune as last season's champion apprentice Chris Catlin delivered Imperial Dancer with a well-timed run to take the Festival Stakes at Goodwood yesterday. The 13-2 chance got up in the shadow of the winning post to deny the odds-on favourite Island House by a head.

Channon, who has been forced to rule his brilliant filly Queen's Logic out of the reckoning for the Irish 1,000 Guineas after she coughed, said of the winner: "He was third in the Greenham last season before we sent him to the German Guineas where he came back all wrong. There's no real reason why Steve [Drowne, stable's senior rider] wasn't on him. Chris comes and rides out for me twice a week and I am just trying to give all the lads a chance by putting them up when I can."

At Newcastle yesterday, Fatehalkhair gained the 19th win of his career. The 10-year-old, bought for only 1,900 guineas out of the Ben Hanbury stable by trainer Brian Ellison, is a most versatile individual, this seventh victory on the Flat adding to eight over hurdles and four over fences.

In France yesterday Frankie Dettori made all on the John Gosden-trained Music Club to win the Listed Prix de Melisande at Longchamp from the favourite Arme Ancienne.

Music Club, who started at 2.9-1 on her first outing since winning a Newmarket maiden in October, is likely to be aimed at the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) on 9 June.