Crowley keeps up title chase

Jim Crowley made the most of the final day of Silvestre de Sousa’s latest enforced absence by cutting the gap on the champion jockey to four with a double at Yarmouth.

Crowley has whittled away at the leader as De Sousa sat out a four-day ban, but the Brazilian is back on Thursday with rides at Lingfield and Kempton.

And the former jump jockey, who will also been in action at both meetings, weighed in with a brace to take his tally to 70 and reinforce his intention to make a fist of the Stobart-sponsored title race.

Crowley and Kind Of Beauty (9-2) got up close home to make a winning introduction at the expense of the more experienced Tomorrowcomes in the toteplacepot Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.

Hugo Palmer’s juvenile snatched the verdict by a half a length after Tomorrowcomes had made the running.

Crowley said: “She’s a nice filly, she’s got plenty of size and scope about her. She stayed the mile well and liked the fast ground.

“I would imagine there’ll be plenty of …

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