Jockey William Buick won the Prix Morny at Deauville on Dream Ahead on Sunday less than 16 hours after landing Saturday night’s Arlington Million in Chicago on Debussy.

The 22-year-old, who lived at Letcombe Regis, near Wantage, with his father Walter before becoming retained jockey to Newmarket trainer John Gosden this season, took the French contest at 2.40pm on Sunday.

It gave Newmarket trainer David Simcock his first Group 1 success.

And it completed a transatlantic double, coming after he had landed the Arlington Million 4,000 miles away in Chicago on the Gosden-trained Debussy.

Buick had the Prix Morny wrapped up after he guided his mount, an 8-1 chance, to challenge at the furlong marker in the six-furlong contest.

Dream Ahead finished well clear of Tin Horse, while other British-trained contenders Libranno, Al Aasifh, Soraaya and Irish Field were out of the places.

The winner has been installed as a 16-1 chance for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in May 2011.

Buick swooped late on Debussy to claim the scalp of Gio Ponti and land the Arlington Million.

Gio Ponti was sent off an odds-on chance to defend his Arlington title, but Buick produced Gosden’s charge with a perfectly-timed run in the Grade 1 heat to take the honours by half a length with stablemate Tazeez third.

Buick said: “I thought, ‘Oh, no, I have so much horse, but I’m not going to have enough room’.

“But then the hole opened and we got it.”

l EVE Johnson Houghton, who trains at Blewbury, near Didcot, saddled Orientalist to land a seven-furlong nursery at Sandown on Saturday.