Wins from Jack's Revenge and Franciscan at Leicester saw Kieren Fallon erode Paul Hanagan's lead in the jockeys' championship to seven.
Fallon has spoken in recent days about his enjoyment of the competition with Hanagan and Silvestre De Sousa as he rides in as many races as possible, from Group Ones to selling plates.
He kicked off by forcing George Baker's 8-13 favourite Jack's Revenge home in the Stoat Selling Stakes, and also had to keep the Luca Cumani-trained Franciscan (11-4) up to his task to close out the Quorn Handicap.
Just three faced the starter for the feature race of the day, the Squirrel Conditions Stakes, and Richard Hannon's Rougement regained winning ways after his failure in a Listed race at Newbury landed by John Gosden's Dewhurst contender Fencing.
Rougement (13-8) made all the running to win by a head - but even-money favourite Repeater was closing all the time after being switched for a run, and could have been in front in another few yards.
Winning jockey Richard Hughes said: "He started well at Newmarket, although he was maybe flattered a bit by that. But at Newbury he was very flat, he went down to the start off the bridle, and I think that was a bit more like him. He's still very weak but still progressive."
Mark Johnston's strapping Abishena overcame evident inexperience in the British Stallion Studs Supporting British Racing EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes.
The 16-1 shot's chance looked to have gone at halfway when she stumbled slightly and needed Franny Norton's guile to get her back on track. Newcomer Fulney very nearly caused a 100-1 upset, but Abishena forged down the stands rail to put her nose in front on the line.
Johnston's representative Jock Bennett said: "She came to us quite late from Darley, but her last two pieces of work had been encouraging. Franny reckoned she would come on a lot for that and winning today is a bonus. Our two-year-olds have let us down a bit, so that was nice to see."
There was an even more impressive winner of the Dormouse Maiden Stakes for three-year-olds when Charlie Hills' Upcountry (4-9 favourite) had four lengths in hand despite drifting right across the track.
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