Bryan Smart can't believe how well things have gone since his move to the Hambleton House stable, near Thirsk, last autumn.

He is enjoying his best season with Vademecum, and at Newcastle he took his score to 33 under Royston Ffrench in the first division of the betfair.com Maiden Auction Stakes.

Vademecum, a first horse owned by John McCreadie, was a convincing winner, and Smart said: "I can do nowt wrong at the moment!

"I would have been chuffed if we had only had 20 winners, so I am over the moon to get to 33, and there is a month of the Turf season to go yet. We have 18 yearlings for next season too."

Like most trainers, Smart has been praying for rain to ease the ground, especially at Newmarket this week as he added: "I have never had Bond Boy so well and I will run him in either a Group 3 race or a 0-105 handicap down there if the ground is right.

"We also want some rain if we are to run Monsieur Bond in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes."

Aston Upthorpe trainer Alan Jarvis, whose daughter Elaine is married to Middleham trainer Karl Burke, sent out On The Wing to win the second division of the juvenile event in the hands of Darryll Holland.

He said: "We have had a lovely bunch of two-year-olds this season and I think we have got our best ever batch of yearlings."

Holland was also successful on Ruby Legend, who justified Mary Reveley's decision to run the gelding in the BBC Radio Newcastle Handicap only two days after he had finished unplaced at York.

Mrs Reveley's son Keith said: "He lost his action at York, he could not gallop at all - we don't usually run horses so quickly again, but he ate up and was bucking and squealing so we decided to run him.

"And Darryll rode him well - he gets horses balanced and running." He added that Ruby Legend was bred by Edward Hide and he is from the family of Mellottie, whose successes for Mrs Reveley included the Cambridgeshire.