THERE were a couple of strong contests on the all-weather at Lingfield Park on Saturday, with the six-furlong Cleves Stakes attracting a field comfortably stronger than its listed status.

Kachy is about the best horse in action on the flat in Ireland and Britain this winter, but he had a wide draw to overcome and only just managed it with a short-head defeat of Kimberella worth a timefigure of 111 for them both.