Rankin has been with Julie Camacho and her husband Steve Brown for over four years and she gave Lauro a cracking ride to win the Alan Burgess Memorial Handicap for the second year running by a neck from Evelith Regent at the Cleveland course.

But shortly after their moment of glory Lauro was found to have sustained a spiral fracture of a canon-bone and Brown said: “Sadly it means she will not be able to race again, but she is going to be all right and we will now breed from her – she will be well looked after.”

Lauro is owned by Julie and was bred by her mother Sue so it is no surprise that she will enjoy a happy retirement from racing, but Rankin will miss the excitement of riding her out in the mornings!

Brown explained: “Dawn is worth her weight in gold and she is the key to the horse. Lauro is difficult at home but Dawn gets on very well with her, she is a very good horsewoman and she rides all our yearlings – she is so good that she could work for any trainer in the country.”

He went on: “Racing is a funny old game, we had had six seconds since our last winner and with the injury to Lauro it seems you take one step forward and then three steps back! But at least she has bowed out on a winning note.”

Lauro gained the first of her seven successes on her racecourse debut at Haydock in July 2002 in the colours of Sue Camacho and then scored three times for the Shangri-La racing Club before winning three times in Julie’s ownership.

Paul Hanagan and his ‘stablemate’ Frederik Tylicki at Richard Fahey’s yard were quickly back among the winners at Redcar on their return to the fray following suspensions.

Hanagan was successful on Fahey’s Wyatt Earp, and having spent his spell on the sidelines with his family in Portugal he said afterwards: “It has been frustrating, but I haven’t missed as many winners as I feared I would. I am taking a bit of blow, but I think I will be better for the outing”!

Tylicki was completing his first double on Neville Bycroft’s Efidium and the Keith Reveley-trained Let It Be, who were both winning for the fourth time at the course but he also picked up a three-day suspension for a whip offence on Efidium.

Brian Smart believed from early in the year that he had a promising bunch of two-year-olds and 10 of them have now been successful with Courageous and Quatermain opening their accounts at the weekend.