CHILTON-BASED jockey Robert Winston admitted he’d have hung up his riding boots if it wasn’t for Librisa Breeze after his biggest career success in the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot.

Winston delivered the Dean Ivory-trained five-year-old to victory in the Group 1 six-furlong event.

It was only the jockey’s second success at the highest level, having landed the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket in 2004 on Magical Romance.

He said: “It means a hell of a lot – my career was finished, only for this horse, and that’s being honest.”

Marmelo, from Hughie Morrison’s East Ilsley yard, is the new favourite for the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington on November 7 after running an eye-catching race to dead-heat for sixth in the BMW Caulfield Cup.

Wantage trainer Henry Candy saddled Blazing Tunder to make a winning debut at Nottingham, before being denied a double when Capton was disqualified from first place on the same card.

Kingston Lisle trainer Heather Main provided Silvestre De Sousa with another winner on his way to a second champion jockeys’ title, when Dashing Poet landed a mile handicap at Lingfield.

And Harry Whittington, who trains at nearvby Sparsholt, added to his good record in National Hunt Flat races when Irish winning point-to-pointer The Dubai Way recorded a game half-length success at Ffos Las under Harry Bannister.