JOCKEY Tom Queally was in excellent form with a 21-1 double at Haydock Park to warm up for next week’s big Royal Ascot meeting.

Queally will partner Henry Cecil’s brilliant QIPCO 2,000 Guineas winner in the St James’s Palace Stakes on the opening day of the Royal meeting next Tuesday. Frankel was among the 13 entries for the Group One contest at yesterday’s six-day declaration stage.

And Queally received a boost with a fine double on Classic Vintage and Wild Coco.

Amanda Perrett’s Classic Vintage (11-1) was a determined winner of the PHS Waterlogic Handicap.

The five-year-old was headed by Granston but he rallied to score by a neck.

It was much easier for Queally aboard Cecil’s warm 4-5 favourite Wild Coco, who landed the PHS Datashred Maiden Stakes by eight lengths from Thubiaan with Crimson Knight another nine lengths back in third.

Another who is hoping for success at Royal Ascot is in-form Cheshire-based trainer Tom Dascombe.

And after five winners at the last Haydock three-day meeting, Dascombe added another when Viola D’Amour sprang a 20-1 debut shock in the PHS Compliance Studs EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.

Dascombe’s charge scored by a neck from Hidden Passion.

Dascombe said: “I thought it looked a good race.

“There were a few expensive ones in there with a good word for a few. She was helped by the shower we had earlier as she will want a mile in time.

“She looked outpaced two out, but it was ability and determination that got her there and she was always just going to get there in the end.

“I think seven furlongs and easier ground might suit next, but we’ll have to see where we go, I think she might be a black type horse.”