The men’s lightweight double Tim Male and Tom Kay were brilliant until they were dumped into fifth place in their

The men’s lightweight double, Tim Male and Tom Kay, were brilliant until they were dumped into fifth place in their final, while the second coxless four are fast enough to do some damage at the World Championships with a cox on board.In non-World Cup events, the lightweight eight won ad edgy bronze in a three-boat final. The lightweight pair of Naomi Ashcroft and Leone Barron won gold, and the men’s lightweight quad won bronze.. Is the buccaneer back? The colourful Peter de Savary is due to announce today that he wants to make another flamboyant entrance on to the America’s Cup stage. Speculation that he was trying to put together a £50m attempt for wherever the Cup is next held, either in Auckland if New Zealand defends successfully or wherever a winning challenger wanted, was heightened when his long-time spokesman Kit Hobday said yesterday he would make a statement today on behalf of De Savary. Though the runaway winners were Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page of Australia, Nicholas Charbonnier and St?ane Christidis of France, as the top Europeans, won the gold as the silver went to Andre Kosmatopoulos and Konstantinos Trigonis of Greece.The gold in the women’s division also went to Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou and Emilia Tsoulfa.

Christina Bassadone and Katherine Hopson were Britain’s best in 10th.. A milestone can be a mark passed with such regularity that it hardly turns heads or one that is reached after sterling effort and celebrated accordingly. Yesterday afternoon, the four-times champion jockey Kieren Fallon cruised to a seasonal century of winners for the sixth time in his career and trainer Brian Meehan secured only his third Group One prize when Kaieteur triumphed in Germany. But the round number is small beer for a rider these days; you have to go back to 1944 for the last time the Flat title was taken with a two- figure total and Fallon himself is a triple double-centurion.But though, barring accident (and keep saluting magpies, for the only gap in his recent hegemony came when he suffered horrific arm injuries in a fall two years ago) he is heading for a fifth title, quality is as important as quantity for the Irishman and his run-of-the-mill pair yesterday merely capped an exceptional week.Two days ago Fallon captured his second successive Saturday Group One when Islington staked her claim as one of the genuine stars of the season with a scintillating success in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood. Eight days earlier, her Sir Michael Stoute stablemate Golan, in the same pale blue colours of their late owner-breeder Lord Weinstock, had taken the King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.The manner of Islington’s victory was more than enough to banish the disappointment of her Oaks failure and Fallon paid her a considerable compliment.

“I’ve ridden some very good fillies, like Sleepytime, Reams Of Verse and Bosra Sham,” he said, “but this filly is as good, if not better. She’s got everything.” Islington’s next target is likely to be the Yorkshire Oaks on the Knavesmire next month, the day after Golan turns out in the International.Meehan’s faith in Kaieteur was entirely justified in the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, a 10-furlong all-aged contest at Munich. Ridden by Pat Eddery, the three-year-old, who has been running with credit against the best of the season’s progressive second division, powered away from local runner Noriot and another raider, Mick Channon’s Imperial Dancer, to win by two lengths.The colt followed Tomba (Prix de la Foret) and Bad As I Wanna Be (Prix Morny) onto the 35-year-old Lambourn-based trainer’s top-level CV in a 10-year-career that has not been without his reverses. He lost subsequent French Derby winner Holding Court as a two-year-old, and had Bad As I Wanna Be head-hunted by Godolphin.The blue team’s Equerry was among the vanquished in Germany yesterday and there was another reverse in America on Saturday night, when Dubai World Cup winner Street Cry met with his first defeat of the year in the Grade One Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. There were mitigating circumstances, however, as the four-year-old was giving 5lb to the winner Left Bank, who covered the nine furlongs in record time, and was dropping back in distance.In Europe, with Grandera and Noverre palpably outranked, the Dubai-based operation must look to last year’s champion Sakhee to furnish top colts’ honours. The five-year-old is due to make his next appearance in the Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville on Saturday.