A Sunday to savour has become a week to remember for Roger Varian, who six days on from bagging the second St Leger of his training career was saddling an incredible 34,838-1 across-the-card seven-timer on Saturday afternoon.
The sensational Sakheer was the undoubted highlight when plundering Newbury’s feature Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes in imperious fashion in the same KHK Racing Ltd colours as Varian’s Doncaster champion Eldar Eldarov.
Varian won the Group two contest in 2019 with Pierre Lapin, but that colt was all speed and was later seen contesting the Commonwealth Cup as a three-year-old.
