MODERN-DAY RECORD CAMBRIDGESHIRE DAY CROWD

Today's attendance 16,394
2004 16,153
2003 15,674

TOTAL 2005 CAMBRIDGESHIRE MEETING ATTENDANCE 32,958 (31,899 in 2004)

Lisa Hancock, managing director of Newmarket Racecourses, said: "This
meeting is going from strength to strength with top class,
ultra-competitive racing and excellent crowds every day.

"It augurs really well for our biggest raceday of the year, Champions' Day,
with its six Group races plus the totesport Cesarewitch two weeks today.

"Today has clearly shown that the low attendances for the Ascot Festival
here last weekend was all down to the difficulty in marketing someone
else's meeting on a one-off basis."

Race Three: Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes
Winner's Quotes:

PEERESS IS PEERLESS

Somewhat unsatisfactory maybe, but the Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot
Stakes, for which the 10 runners split into three groups, resulted in a
brilliant triumph for Peeress, ridden by Kevin Darley, who ironically,
would have been aboard Attraction had she not been pulled out earlier in
the week.

Peeress, Summitville and Musicanna, the only three to race up the far side,
finished first, second and third respectively, with German-trained Shapira
staying on to deprive Chic of third place from the main group who raced up
the centre.

One of the two representatives for the Cheveley Park Stud - Chic, the 9-4
favourite who was having her final race before retiring to the paddocks,
was the other- Peeress (7-1) relished the rain-softened ground and galloped
home by a length and a half and a half.

Chris Richardson, managing director of the Cheveley Park Stud, said: "I
thought that Peeress would be the one when the rain returned as Pivotals
just love this ground.

"Ryan (Moore) reported that he had no option but to give chase earlier than
he would have liked on Chic, but having hit the front up the middle, she
then stopped.

"However, all credit to Peeress. We freshened her up after she ran so well
to finish third in the Falmouth Stakes at the July meeting, and whereas the
Matron Stakes at Leopardstown was always Chic's main target, this has been
the aim for Peeress all summer."

Sir Michael Stoute, whose third runner, Favourable Terms, trailed in
eighth, said:"It was too soft for her, conditions weren't ideal for Chic,
but Peeress simply loved it.

"She has shown herself to be a good filly all year. In fact, she has never
run a bad race in her life, and I am delighted that Mr and Mrs Thompson
are keen to keep her in training next season."

For Chic, however, retirement beckons. "It was a shame that she could not
bow out with a win, but the Matron was her race. She ought to have won
that."

KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN SUN CHARIOT STAKES
MORE WINNING QUOTES

PEERESS A GREAT SUBSTITUTE FOR DARLEY

Kevin Darley, the winning jockey whose original intended mount for the
Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes was Attraction, retired earlier this
week, found a great substitute in Peeress who won well by a length and a
half on the far side of the course.

He said: "Peeress gave me a super ride - Mr Stoute said before the race
that the ground had come for her. She is nice and uncomplicated - very
straightforward - and Summitville gave me a great lead until the dip and,
once I gave her the office to go, she lengthened and kept going very
nicely.

"She was a little bit keen from the gate and I just wanted something to
follow to just get her in behind. Summitville was the only one in front of
me so I followed her.

"At the end of the day, I think it is where the better horses are. The
ground is pretty much the same all over to be quite honest - it is quite
poached everywhere. I think this filly would have won wherever she ran on
the course.

"Peeress was a great substitute in this race for Attraction who will be
sadly missed. I think we are all relieved that she is going to the paddocks
in one piece."

THIRD RACE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN SUN CHARIOT STAKES
PLACED QUOTES

SUMMITVILLE DEFIES HER ODDS

Summitville may have been a 50/1 chance but she certainly didn't run like
one, finding only Peeress one and a half lengths too powerful in the
Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes.

James Given, trainer of Summitville, said: "I am very, very pleased with
her and I told Kerrin [McEvoy, jockey] to be as brave as he could with the
pace. In this company I thought that they might ignore her especially if
the field split as it did.

"He's gone out there and executed the plan perfectly and in a sense he's
slipped the field with the others up the middle. Although this wasn't her
ground, it might have helped as she was five or six lengths ahead and it's
difficult to make that up on this ground.

"She doesn't stop and gets into sixth gear very quickly and stays. That was
the best result of her career as she was third in two Group 1s as a
three-year-old in the Oaks and the Yorkshire Oaks and now she's finished
second in a Group 1.

"That was also possibly her last result as she's five now and I am very,
very proud of her, especially as I bought her for 7,000guineas.

"She will be in the December Sales and, as Cheveley Park Stud keep beating
us, it would be nice if they bought her!"

Musicanna was a further two and a half lengths away in third for James
Fanshawe, who said: "She ran really well and Jamie [Spencer, jockey] felt
the pace of a Group 1 caught her out a bit as she's not used to this sort
of company.

"She's run a really good race and I think that she might stay 10 furlongs
next year. She has exceeded our expectations this season."

Spencer added: "I think that she will be a top filly next year and it was a
big jump from a Listed race to a Group 1. She's still learning and has run
a blinder."

GROUND

After this third race, the ground was officially changed to: "Soft."

FOURTH RACE TOTESPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE
WIN QUOTES

XMAS DAY DECISION COMES OFF!

"Good trainers always say they plan to win big races at the beginning of
the year!" laughed Roger Charlton after Blue Monday had landed a huge
gamble, going off the 5/1 favourite in the totesport Cambridgeshire. "On
Christmas Day we decided that he was a Cambridgeshire horse!"

This was the trainer's second success in this race, having saddled Cap
Juluca to win in the same colours of Martin Myers of the Mountgrange Stud
in 1995.

"For once I wasn't being pessimistic about a horse, I have been positive
all the time even to the press and he was favourite so what more can you
say?" he continued.

"Having had a bit of time off, he was a bit fresh last time at Newbury
[when beaten a short-head] and he was difficult to saddle, missed the break
and showed signs of inexperience.

"I was concerned that he had too hard a race there but the only way to
find out was to run him and possibly that run made a man of him.

"I was worried about the ground as he has never really run on soft
ground."

Blue Monday did not run as a three-year-old. "He was unsound, stiff,
pottering and struggling," explained the trainer. "But it's come with
patience.

"There's not many other races for him this year - we will probably relax
him a bit and hope we get some yearlings to train next year. I'm being
serious as we are a bit short."

Winning jockey Steve Drowne said: "Job done. I hadn't planned to give him
such a hard race at Newbury last time but it was £60,000 to the winner.

"Actually it seems to have made more of a man of him as he was a bit of a
kid there.

"The boss said at the beginning of the year that this was the target and
we probably wouldn't see the best of him until then.

"Blue Monday handled the ground well."

Race Four: totesport Cambridgeshire (Heritage Handicap)
Placed Quotes:

MILLS UNHAPPY WITH HOLLAND RIDE

Two and a half lengths is a long way, but trainer Terry Mills was adamant
that Evaluator, runner-up under Darryll Holland in the totesport
Cambridgeshire, was beaten by pilot error.

An angry Mills did not mince his words afterwards and said:"Everything was
right today, and we told Darryll to be up there on the pace. If he had
carried out his instructions he would have won, but jockeys won't listen
and he has come from too far back. It's very disappointing."

Holland took the verbal "punches" with a smile and told Mills: "Don't worry
Terry, he'll win you a Group race next year."

Northern challenger My Paris was an honourable third, and Jonathan
Spensley, who owns the Kevin Ryan-trained four-year-old, said:"That was
some performance with his big weight, and I suppose we'll go up again now.
He won't race again this season."

Crosspeace finished fourth, leaving trainer Mark Johnston well pleased.
"The draw played a big part, with the first three coming from stalls 28, 26
and 25 respectively, but Kevin (Darley) had no excuses.

"He reported that they quickened away from him at the two-furlong pole and
that he was staying on again all too late."

Connections are now toying with the idea of stepping Crosspeace up to a
mile and a half as an experiment.

BLACK SATURDAY FOR TOTESPORT

Damian Walker of totesport, sponsor of this afternoon's £130,000 totesport
Cambridgeshire, said: "Blue Monday made it a Black Saturday for us at
totesport.

"The winner has landed the £75,000 first prize but the punters have taken
us for over half a million."

CHAMPIONS' DAY DRAWS EVER CLOSER

Champions' Day is now just two weeks away, and with the prospect of Aidan
O'Brien's George Washington, ante-post favourite for the Stan James 2000
Guineas, being flown over from Tipperary for the Darley Dewhurst Stakes,
along with stablemate Oratorio, whose target is the Emirates Airline
Champion Stakes, Lisa Hancock, managing director of Newmarket Racecourses,
predicts "this could be the best day's Flat racing of 2005".

Hancock said: "Champions' Day is unique in that it is the only raceday in
Britain which can boast six Group races.

"With £1m in prize money on offer, and the totesport Cesarewitch
complementing the Pattern race sextet, you would have to go a long way to
find such a high-class programme."

The curtain goes up on Champions' Day at 2.05pm, but 35 minutes earlier the
paddock steps will be jam-packed to see a lifesize bronze statue of the
mighty Persian Punch being unveiled.

Hancock added: "Newmarket was Persian Punch's second home - his five wins
here included three Jockey Club Cups, a re-routed Sagaro Stakes and a
Bahrain Trophy - so it is only fitting that we should commemorate the
horse.

"Owner Jeff Smith and trainer David Elsworth will join forces to unveil the
statue, which has been sculpted by Philip Blacker."