Racing: Peslier to ride Boreal

Olivier Peslier, the top French jockey, will ride German horse Boreal in Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, it was confirmed yesterday.

Peter Schiergen, Boreal's trainer, had hoped that Kieren Fallon would renew his partnership with the horse on whom he won the Coronation Cup at Epsom earlier this year.

But Fallon now looks set to ride Sir Michael Stoute's contender, last year's 2,000 Guineas winner Golan, in the mile and a half event. That means Peslier has been snapped up as a substitute.

Boreal was one of 15 horses left in at the five-day declaration stage yesterday. The field is set to be headed by the Godolphin duo of Sakhee and Grandera. Aidan O'Brien is another with multiple entries in Bach and Della Francesca.

Marcus Tregoning could be double-handed with Nayef and Sir Effendi.

Obsession for Darley

Kevin Darley took the riding honours with three winners at Ayr yesterday, initiated by Double Obsession who also took trainer Mark Johnston's win prize money earnings for the season over the £900,000 mark.

Double Obsession was Johnston's 13th individual juvenile winner of the season. But in the selling stakes, Darley, on Fiddlers Creek, had to share the spoils with Laura-Jayne Crawford who recorded the first success of her career with dead-heater Patricia Philomena.

Fiddlers Creek is trained by Dick Allan who said: "This horse cost 190,000gns as a yearling but we got him for 3,000gns out of the Luca Cumani stable – we bought him as a gelding but he still has his credentials and is in fact a colt!"

Both horses were offered for sale at auction but neither attracted a bid. Darley made it three when Rae Guest's Montecristo (1-5) completed a hat-trick with the minimum of fuss in a three-runner contest which ended the Ayr card.