Derbyshire all-rounder Graeme Welch enjoyed a day to remember as he put his team in control of their County Championship match with Essex at Chelmsford yesterday. But captain Ronnie Irani and Andy Flower steered Essex to 123 for 4, with the former completing an entertaining half-century from 71 balls.An England and Wales Cricket Board pitch panel will today decide whether Kent will be punished after 18 wickets fell on the second day of their match with Gloucestershire in Maidstone yesterday.A green-tinged pitch at The Mote was left pock-marked by the seam of the ball, with batsmen on both sides struggling for fluency as the ball continued to move off the surface.. Approaching the two-furlong marker Dettori manoeuvred to his right and Mr Berry clipped his heels. Bans of two days or less can be deferred when there is a Group One race, but even if Dettori decides to appeal that will not apply unless his suspension is reduced by at least four days.. We considered it to be seriously careless and we have given him six days, so that is the whole of Ascot.”Dettori had a top-class book of rides at the royal meeting, including the scheduled return of last year’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Doyen.Johnny Murtagh successfully appealed against a three-day suspension which would have ruled him out of the ride on Motivator in tomorrow’s Derby.The ban was reduced to two days, allowing him to defer the first day until Sunday.

He appeared to edge right on the three-year-old, hampering the Fran Berry-ridden Aversham, who fell. Dettori’s ban runs from 13 to 18 June inclusive, which covers all five days of the Yorkshire meeting, which runs from 14 to 18 June.The stipendiary steward Louise Williams said: “The penalty for careless riding ranges from a caution to nine days. The greatest significance was the announcement that Kieren Fallon has elected to ride Gypsy King of the Ballydoyle quartet, leaving Michael Kinane to take the mount on Oratorio.The draw for the post position meant that the big three will get up front and personal, in the early stages at least. Frankie Dettori will miss all of the Royal Ascot at York meeting after receiving a six-day ban for careless riding at Haydock yesterday.
Dettori was suspended for his ride on Royal Orissa in a handicap. Gypsy King, Dubawi and Motivator were allotted stalls three, four and five respectively.Hyperion’s selections for today’s other meetings:Haydock: 6.30 Peter’s Imp 7.00 Blades Boy 7.35 Music Note 8.05 Golden Grimshaw 8.40 Consular 9.10 Mr MischiefThirsk: 1.55 High Heel Sneakers 3.05 Dramatic Review 3.40 Jabraan 4.25 Rosecliff 5.00 Amelia 5.35 Cerulean RoseWolverhampton: 2.05 Maniatis 2.40 Blue Moon Hitman 3.15 Il Pranzo 3.50 Kiama 4.35 Gallego 5.10 Lucius VerrusRichard EdmondsonNap: Eswarah (Epsom 4.10)NB: Reefscape (Epsom 3.30).

But all has not been perfect in the five-year-old’s preparation.”Papineau has been working very well and is in good form, but he recently suffered a bruised foot and missed two days’ training,” Saeed Bin Suroor, his trainer, revealed yesterday. “He is back in training now.”In these confusing circumstances we must return to France and a man who knows something about winning Coronation Cups, M Fabre, whose Reefscape (next best 3.30) looked as though he would be an improved beast for his Prix Ganay second to Bago.A field of 14 was declared yesterday for the Derby, with just Godolphin’s Shamardal removed from calculations. Team Dubai usually have one hot out of the oven for this adventure This would be their third victory in six years. Seven-year-olds, the tomes tell us, do not win this.That should leave Papineau. The Ascot Gold Cup winner will test Godolphin’s belief that he can be equally potent at a mile and a half. The statistics are against Clive Brittain’s Warrsan, even as he strives to complete a hat-trick in the race.

Reefscape and Pride for France, and Yeats for Ireland will jostle with five British-based runners for the Group One prize.The French own a good record in this contest even if Swain, when he was in Andr?abre’s guardianship, was their last winner in 1996. McGuigan made no mistake, ending the seven-year reign of the Panamanian with a 15-rounds points victory. “He was born and bred in Newmarket and went to Newmarket sales as a yearling,” Bell says. “He came here, across the road from Tattersalls [Sales], and ran first time at the bottom of town at the July course. So he’s very inexperienced mentally.”As a consequence of this smalltown background it was determined that Motivator should have some prior experience of Epsom without actually racing.

“We went into the saddling boxes, walked round the paddock and heard the Tannoy,” Bell says. “He cantered to the mile and a quarter start and did a swinging canter back, maybe more than a swinger, a three-quarters speed.”It was done for familiarity and a bit of mental experience. It cannot have done him any harm because Epsom is a big ordeal The preliminaries are unique. The paddock is the pre-parade ring and they walk around next to the road, next to those tents and underneath the stands with that loud broadcast system blaring away.