Racing Post Cutting July 12th

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DOING it once could be regarded as a fluke but doing it again just 24 hours later leaves no room for any doubt - Tom Dascombe is clearly a trainer on the up.
A day after beating the big battalions when Classic Blade gave him a first Group-race success with a short-head victory in the July Stakes, he repeated the trick in the Group 2 Weatherbys Superlative Stakes, and did it in style too.
Dascombe's Firth Of Fifth, stepping up in class after an all-the-way auction maiden success at Lingfield, ran his rivals into the ground again to score by a length and a quarter under Richard Kingscote.
"This just goes to show it is sometimes worth running," said Dascombe, who is now quoted at just 10-1 to win a Group 1 race this season by Coral, who rate him a 40-1 chance to win a British or Irish Classic in 2009.
"I was more confident with Classic Blade because it was an easier race. On form, Firth Of Fifth couldn't beat Bryan Smart's horse Prime Spirit, but he has kept improving and is tough."