Brad The Brief wins the Conditions Stakes at Haydock Park

Brad The Brief (7-4) added to trainer Hugo Palmer's good first week at Chester with victory in the Pertemps Network Conditions Stake at Haydock Park.

Palmer took over at Michael Owen's Manor House stables from Tom Dascombe and has two winners during the 20222 Boodles Chester May Festival on the Roodee this yard for the Cheshire yard, pleasing the former Liverpool FC striker.

And now he has had a first winner at another of the stable's local tracks as Brad The Brief lowered the colours of Archie Watson's Group One winner Glen Shiel (5-4 favourite).

Under David Egan, Brad The Brief was always travelling powerfully as Glen Shiel made the initial running in the six-furlong contest on the rain-softened conditions at Haydock.

And the three-year-old moved to the front with two furlongs to go and despite Glen Shiel rallying, Brad The Brief scored by a comfortable three-and-a-quarter lengths.

Connections are eyeing a trip to Ireland next to try and land a Group Two at the Curragh following his smooth success at Haydock.

Having blown off the cobwebs, runner-up Glen Shiel is likely to head back to Royal Ascot next month, where he was second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes last season.

Palmer was not at Haydock, but his assistant Colin Gorman said: "We have been waiting for softer conditions since Doncaster really. Just in the middle of this Chester week – it usually rains at Chester doesn't it – so this race panned out well.

"He will probably go to Ireland on the 21st of this month, there is a Group Two at the Curragh as he would be more likely to be getting the ground (in Ireland) at that stage, the back-end of May. We have been waiting for him and luckily we go the soft ground he relishes.

"David said he felt as if the favourite