in six furlong handicap race at Newmarket Racecourse and ran second to his old rival Dazzling Dan beaten half a length after finishing strongly. At Doncaster racecourse on 14 September Oxted started at odds of 14/1 in a twenty-two runner field for the Portland Handicap over five and a half furlongs on good to firm ground. He was assigned a weight of 133 pounds but carried three pounds less as he was ridden by the apprentice jockey Cieren Fallon. He raced just behind the leaders down the centre of the course, went to the front inside the final furlong and won by half a length from the six-year-old gelding A Momentofmadness (winner of the race in 2018). He was the first horse of his age to win the race since 2000. After the race Roger Teal said "He'd started to shine in his work so we were pretty hopeful, but I started panicking when I looked at the stats for three-year-olds. It was an amazing day in the end. He's still a baby and only a frame at the moment. He's worth giving a chance to and I think he could be seriously nice next year." 2020: four-year-old season The flat racing season in Britain was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Group 3 Abernant Stakes, which saw Oxted make his first appearance of the year, was run on 5 June behind closed doors at Newmarket. The gelding started 7/2 second favourite behind the Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Brando in a seven-runner field which also included Emaraaty Ana (Gimcrack Stakes), Breathtaking Look (Sceptre Stakes), Mr Lupton (Greenlands Stakes) and Keystroke (winner of the race in 2019). Ridden by Fallon (still an apprentice but unable to claim a weight allowance in a Group race), Oxted went to the front approaching the last quarter mile, accelerated into a clear lead, and held on in the closing stages to win by a length from Breathtaking Look. Teal commented "It has been a stop-start campaign and I had him primed to run in this in April. Thankfully we eased off with him and when we got the date for this we knew what was happening so we stoked him up a bit and God bless him he has done it well. He popped out and travelled lovely. I saw him powering up the hill. Cieren said he was just having a bit