MAN O'MYSTERY put the dampeners on what turned out to be a miserable night for jockey Richard Hughes at Newbury last Wednesday.

Hughes' mount Chianti lost out by the narrow margin of a head in the Rundle and Co Conditions Stakes.

Hughes, earlier disqualified after finishing first past the post on Golden Bounty in the second race, looked like making up for that reverse on John Dunlop's Chianti. Then Pat Eddery conjured a great run from Man O'Mystery, whom Jeremy Noseda will now point towards York's Magnet Cup or a race at Royal Ascot.

Dragon Flyer was awarded the Coolmore Stud Conditions Stakes after Golden Bounty had headed him in what proved a ding-dong duel in the final furlong.

The stewards faced a tricky decision and took more than 20 minutes to reverse the placings after Golden Bounty gave his rival a bump and then leaned on him.

Winning trainer Graham McCourt said: "It was very tight. It is unfortunate, with two horses rolling around on soft ground like they were."

Richard Green and Paul Cole made it two wins in two years in the juvenile maiden as Sir Edwin Landseer landed the spoils from unlucky debutant Fovant.

Art dealer Green has been successful naming his horses after masters of the brush and chisel. Sir Edwin Landseer could run in the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom later this week.

Digital turned back the clock when landing the sprint handicap in the colours of former trainer Bill Wightman. Trainer Mick Channon was repaying Wightman, with whom he had his first horses during his footballing career with Southampton.

Channon said: "Bill's record speaks for itself. He won all the big handicaps - the Cambridgeshire, the Lincoln and the Stewards Cup."

Wightman, a rare racegoer these days but a legend in preparing handicappers for big tilts at the ring, said: "I'm so lame I can't make it to the winner's enclosure, but I did have £100 each-way in readies on him at 10-1."

Another Lambourn victory came courtesy of Nicky Henderson's hurdler Cupboard Lover in the staying handicap. Henderson has a 50 per cent record with his Flat runners at his local track.