Sky Bet Sunday Series: Evaluation stays on a roll at Musselburgh

Evaluation continued to stay on a roll with a fourth successive win in the Sky Bet Sunday Series Stayers Handicap at Musselburgh.

The four-year-old, a son of Dubawi out of Gold Cup winner Estimate, won only one of his ten starts for Sir Michael Stoute but has been a revelation since being switched to Keith Dalgleish this year, wining each of his races.

His win on Sunday, his second in this year's Sky Bet Series, was his fourth in little more than a month – and came off a mark 16lb higher than when scoring on his stable debut at Wetherby.

He extended his winning sequence by finishing with a flourish under Jason Hart, winning going away by two-and-a-quarter lengths.

A mark in the 90s now seems on the cards, bring top staying handicaps such as the Northumberland Plate into the equation for him.

"He's as nice a stayer as I've sat on for a while and he will get further," Hart said. "We didn't go very quick but he still had the gears to pick them off."

Dalgleish completed a double when El Picador swooped from off the pace in the finale tunder Ryan Sexton. It means the trainer has now had four Sky Bet Sunday Series winner this year, at the halfway stage.

The first six races for the third leg of the Sky Bet Sunday Series had all won by different trainer/jockey combinations.

Snooze N You Lose was a decisive winner of the feature race, the Listed Sky Bet Sunday Series Queen of Scots Stakes, for Karl Burke and Sam James.

Sophie’s Star was a surprise 40-1 winner of the Sky Bet Sunday Series 3yo Sprint Handicap after favourite backers had been able to cheer the victories of Finn’s Charm, in the Sky Bet Sunday Series Restricted Maiden Stakes, and Only Spoofing in the Sky Bet Sunday Series Apprentice Handicap.