EXCITING plans are in the pipeline for Island Brave after the colt gave Kingston Lisle trainer Heather Main her biggest success in the Betway Handicap at Newcastle.

The four-year-old was handed the £54,986 first prize in controversial fashion with the stewards promoting Luke Morris’s mount to first place after deeming that Stargazer had carried him across the course before prevailing by a nose.

Opera singer Main, who now intends to give the son of Zebedee a break before looking at running him at Royal Ascot and then possibly the Ebor Handicap at York, said: “He’s been an amazing horse and he’s been so consistent.”

Izzer followed up his Brocklesby Stakes win at Doncaster by taking the Betway Conditions Stakes at Bath to complete a 7-1 double for West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon, who was successful earlier on the card with Dan’s Dream.

Channon said of Izzer: “He’s a smasher and has taken very little tuition or guidance. I’ll take all the praise if it comes, but he just does what he does and loves the job. He’s paid for himself inside six days.”

The West Ilsley handler also holds Dan’s Dream in some regard, saying: “She’s above average and last year was just a season of frustration.

“She’d go wrong behind, we’d give her time off, then she’d rap a joint and it became a recurring theme.”

Dorian Gray supplemented his recent Lingfield win for East Ilsley trainer Hughie Morrison and jockey Charlie Bennett with a neck verdict over Seasearch in a mile-and-a-half handicap at Southwell.

Blewbury trainer Noel Williams was also among the winners when Breaking Waves made a successful debut in a National Hunt Flat Race at Huntingdon.