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But they aim to complete the remaining five races, even though the loss of two races, plus one earlier bad result, leaves them with no chance of a medal. All systems were at full stretch in the British Olympic sailing squad last night after the world champions in the Star class, Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell, broke their mast in the first of yesterday’s two scheduled races. Close behind come two Swiss riders, Steve Guerdat on Tepic La Silla and Beat Mandli on Pozitano Skelton, lying 24th, is best of the British hopes.. Germany Regained the team title in the European Show Jumping Championships after drawing away from the French world champions in the closing stages of the two-round contest here yesterday. My lead will probably give him something to think about – for around 10 days.”. If I have to flog all the way to Perth for just one ride, that is where I will be.”Johnson, who was leading McCoy by 18 in the championship table at the start of the day, said: “Tony looks fitter than ever.

“It has been tough while I’ve been off, but I managed to cope by not watching racing on TV, which would have upset me.”My arm feels 100 per cent and although I have foregone the dream of 300 winners this season, I will be going everywhere for winning rides as usual. “It means a lot to me, the reception the public gave me after that first win back,” McCoy said. It was not a feeling that was to persist as the champion jump jockey, who broke his right arm in a fall at Worcester on 18 June, returned to the winner’s circle on his first mount and put his main rival for this year’s title, Richard Johnson, in his place in the process.
Flying Spirit, appropriately enough named, was the horse that carried him to success in a novices’ hurdle, while Enitsag, his only other ride as he restricted himself to a couple of mounts over the smaller obstacles, could manage only third.It was Flying Spirit, though, that proved the significant partner, pulling clear to score by 13 lengths at 9-4 and beating the 1-2 favourite Chivite, ridden by Johnson. Tony McCoy described himself as “nervous, like a lad who was having his first ride”, when he returned to action at Fontwell yesterday after being out of action for two months. The scramble for €300,000 has alerted a hatful of British trainers, notably Mick Channon, whose Majestic Desert was third in Royal Ascot’s Queen Mary Stakes.. “He was very impressive in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot and is a typically tough Mark Johnston-trained colt.”There is further gold on the Curragh plains in the Tattersalls Breeders Stakes, won last year by Fulke Johnson Houghton’s Tout Seul. “I can’t wait to sit on him again,” Darryll Holland said of his mount.

On this occasion he sends out The Mighty Tiger, who was second to Johnston’s Lucky Story at Goodwood, Mahogany, Newton and Tumblebrutus.Kingsley House will not however be going in with any sense of defeatism. Aidan O’Brien likes to line up a monster for this race, having won it with Giant’s Causeway in 1999 and Hawk Wing two years ago. First Charter (next best 2.00) collected this contest last year, as the messages suggest he should again.In Ireland, Mark Johnston’s Pearl Of Love tries to throw a clog into the machinery of Ballydoyle in the Galileo Futurity Stakes at the Curragh. It should not happen again.The March Stakes does not bear the significance of a single St Leger entry, though there is the merit of the day’s duplication theme. Arakan (nap 3.05) was the recipient of a duff Kieren Fallon ride as he finished fast from a dungeon position.

After this, then on to France [for the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp on 7 September] and then it’s back to Ascot for the QEII [on 27 September].”This does not sound immediately promising, and the best option on this apparent Groundhog Day is a horse which dealt not with the repetitive but the near unique on this course at the Glorious meeting. “It’s been a bit of a hurry to get him there, but the horse seems in good order. He’s obviously going to be a little bit rustier than a horse that has been running every month but he’s as good as we can get him.”Tomorrow is really a stepping stone to two Group Ones. Only recently has Where Or When stopped collecting his prescriptions.”He had a recurrence of a bacterial infection so we had to pull up with him,” Robert Mills, son and assistant to the trainer, Terry, said yesterday. However, this season has not been kind to the four-year-old either, witness his last-minute withdrawal from the Sussex Stakes last month. At seven years of age, he is beginning to look like a Saga horse.Where Or When went on to land the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot following this venture a year ago and, as the younger horse, he would seem the obvious alternative. Surely, the former must win once again in this mirror-image race?If only it was this easy.