Hollie Doyle shines as Witness Stand lifts Lennox Stakes
However, Doyle avoided any complications as she latched Witness Stand on to the small cluster to go forward from start, always in the slipstream of customary front-runner Quinault and defending champion Audience.
It looked momentarily like Audience would recreate last year's heroics, but the 25-1 winner found plenty in reserve inside the final furlong to gallop home two-and-three-quarter-lengths clear of William Haggas' Lake Forest, the only runner to emerge from the chasing pack late on.
Insole said: 'As a trainer you wait your whole life for a good horse and to win the Lennox is pretty incredible.
'We bought him for a hundred grand and felt he'd gone under the radar as there were higher offers for him that came our way afterwards. I already had this race in mind for him.
'It was his Chester run (second in a Listed race) that gave us the confidence to come here, and when I saw the rain this morning and the slower ground I knew it would be to his advantage.
'He's in the Hungerford (at Newbury), but would have to carry a penalty now. I also put him in the Foret this morning.'
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