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There was high drama in this year's Greenham Stakes (G3) with the 5/4 favourite and notable 2000 Guineas fancy, Chaldean, unseating Frankie Dettori coming out of the stalls. Andrew Balding's charge appeared to jink instantly left before coming close to the eventual sixth-placed horse Streets Of Gold.

With Chaldean running loose on the front-end Isaac Shelby lead the remaining field at what looked a sensible gallop in testing conditions. Brian Meehan's Superlative Stakes (G2) winner was always travelling comfortably and drew away nicely in the closing stages to beat the running on Charyn by three lengths. Debut winner Theoryofeverything finished further five-and-a-half lengths back in third.

The son of Night Of Thunder (who finished runner-up in this race before going on to 2000 Guineas success in 2014) has subsequently been cut to a general 7/1 from 20s for the French equivalent.

Jockey Sean Levey  spoke to Racing TV afterwards and said "When the loose one came by it lit him (Isaac Shelby) up, so I ran the majority of the race very keen. I thought we'd maybe done too much getting up to the furlong marker, but nothing showed up."

He later went on to say "I would say he'd want a sound surface. He's a good moving horse, a strong traveller and he stays well".