Ed has a 60% strike-rate on the all-weather this season, and the stable's good run on the sand continued when ANA EMARATI hosed up in the 7f handicap at Southwell on Tuesday.
Being by the top US stallion Forestry, Ana Emarati is bred for this surface, and, having broken his maiden at the same track in February, he followed up in some style here, leading early in the straight and being eased down at the finish by Jamie Spencer well before the line, which he passed two and a quarter lengths clear. That success came off 72 - we now await the handicapper's reaction before making future plans.