Maraahel was just worried out of a fourth consecutive victory in the Grant Thornton Huxley Stakes as Championship Point made virtually all to capture the Group Three prize at Chester on Thursday.

Sir Michael Stoute's seven-year-old has become a standing dish on the Roodee and touched 1-8 in-running on Betfair as Richard Hills narrowly shaded the advantage entering the final furlong aboard the 5-2 chance.

But Championship Point (12-1) had a little more left in the locker and pulled out extra to provide Mick Channon with a welcome change of fortune after narrow defeats in the 1000 Guineas and Chester Cup.

Short-priced favourite Multidimensional was disappointing.

Channon said: "We needed a change of luck and we have got that today.

"When I saw the ground drying out I knew we had to go again and it is great he has managed to win a Group race."

Owner Hamdan Al Maktoum's racing manager Angus Gold added of Maraahel: "It was a good effort. He gave it his best and it is great to see he is still in good shape.

"I've not discussed plans with Sir Michael, but I guess we will follow a similar route to last year."

Winning jockey Darryll Holland picked up a one-day ban (May 22) for careless riding soon after the start.

Barry Hills saddled his second winner of the meeting as Huzzah (15-2) quickened well in the Halifax Handicap to see off the fast-finishing Fervent Prince by a short head, with the Britannia at Royal Ascot now a possibility.

Moore added the Boodles Diamond EBF Maiden Stakes to his haul as Richard Hannon's Rebecca De Winter shot clear to take the five-furlong dash at odds of 11-4.

Hannon's son and assistant Richard junior said: "We were a bit disappointed when she got beat first time out, but she got there and got tired.

"The owners bought her with a view of trying to win the Super Sprint again and she would have a live chance in that.

"I imagine we will take in the Hilary Needler or the National Stakes on the way."

Tom Tate cemented his new partnership with owner Jim Hay as Mull Of Dubai (13-2) sprinted clear under a fine John Egan ride in the 10-furlong Bank Of Ireland Handicap.

Tate said of the 13-2 winner: "He has won on faster ground and over a shorter trip than normal. I am just learning about him, but I like what I see."

Egan completed a first-and-last-race double when bagging the closing Cruise Handicap aboard the Stuart Parr-trained Not My Choice (6-1).

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