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The Sir Mark Prescott-trained Tiffany continued her upward progression with victory in Friday’s Group 3 Hoppings Stakes on the all-weather at Newcastle.

The four-year-old mare has benefited from a patient approach, racing once as a juvenile and given time to improve during her three-year-old campaign, which culminated in a Listed success in Germany in September. She secured another Listed victory at Baden-Baden on seasonal reappearance in May, and was having her first run in Black Type company on home soil in the Hoppings Stakes.

Ridden by Luke Morris, Tiffany was always in contention from the early stages of the ten-furlong contest, hitting the front with two furlongs to run. She pulled easily clear of German Guineas heroine Darnation, recording a two-and-a-half length victory at the line.

A pleased Luke Morris said: "She's been a credit to Sir Mark and the whole team at Heath House, she started off a mark in the 70s and now she's 109 and a Group Three winner.

"She's a real advocate for patience and letting a horse come to themselves, because if we'd dived in to soon she may have cracked. To me, she felt like a filly well worth a crack at the top level on that run.

"She's a very smooth-travelling filly and you can ride her where you want. I knew she stayed further because of her last run so the plan was to kick on and try to outstay them."

Assistant trainer William Butler added: "It's a pleasure to train these improving fillies for these good owner-breeders, they let you be patient.

"Looking through her form, when she won at Wolverhampton last year Isle Of Jura (Hardwicke winner) was fourth so it's all there, in the book.

"There was a day she got beaten at Windsor we were disappointed, but the winner was Richard Fahey's globetrotter (Spirit Dancer)!.

"With another year on her back she's just improved again, it's every run. We'll just take it step by step, but the Group One option is there and so is the option to go up in trip."