Wootton Bassett is the pride of Malton after Hanagan races away to Town Moor victory

From a Yorkshire standpoint, by far the most impressive was a fourth win in four outings for Wootton Bassett, trained at Malton by Richard Fahey and brilliantly ridden by Paul Hanagan.

The two-year-old took the Weatherbys Insurance 300,000 Stakes over six-and-a-half in a manner of a top-class horse in the making and an autumn programme will now be mapped out which should take him into the winter as one of the favourites for the 2,000 Guineas – or maybe even the Derby.

Fahey opted to miss the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Gimcrack at York's Ebor Festival, preferring to run Wootton Bassett in a similar sales race to yesterday's, which he duly won earning his owners 115,000.

They pocketed a further 151,000 for yesterday's effort when their colt confirmed his superiority over Galtymore Lad, beaten by almost two lengths at York but in receipt of eight pounds yesterday, yet he must have had just the slightest of doubts as the leader passed the furlong pole.

Hanagan had always been in the right position on the 2-1 favourite, encouraging his mount along without asking for too much too soon but when Kieren Fallon sent Galtymore Lad into a slight advantage it was time for the pride of Malton, jockey and colt, to get to work.

They did so impressively, stretching away to win by a comfortable length with another of Fahey's charges, the 28-1 chance Premier Clarets, running on well to claim third place and another nice slice of prize-money.

Fahey has always thought highly of Wootton Bassett and commented: "We'll get him home and see how he is. He saw it out well and his dam won over a mile-and-a-quarter so you'd like to think he'll stay a bit further. We'll have a look at a race at Longchamp on Arc day over seven furlongs and also the Middle Park."

Hanagan enthused: "When Kieren came and headed me it did him a lot of good, my horse just went again. He's just an unbelievable horse; he's done it really well and came into the winner's enclosure as though he hadn't had a race."

There was more Derby talk after the Crownhotel. bawtry.com Maiden Stakes in which Henry Cecil's Picture Editor, having his first run in public and starting at 10-1, benefitted from a supremely confident ride from Tom Queally to get his head in front of the John Gosden-trained odds-on favourite Nathaniel at the line.

On his previous run Nathaniel had been beaten by another Cecil charge in Frankel – who runs today – but Gosden is confident his two-year-old will mature into a quality animal. "He is bred to stay a mile-and-a-half and he is one for next year," he said.

That will have been music to Cecil's ears as he ponders the programme for Picture Editor and Frankel over the next couple of months.

And if Cecil and Fahey allowed themselves a modest celebration last night, Mark Johnston could well have done the same in Middleham after his Eastern Aria, given what the trainer's wife Deidre described as "a peach of a ride" by Frankie Dettori, took the day's Group Two prize, the DFA Park Hill at a generous 5-1.