Wechaad goes in search of hat-trick at Newmarket

WECHAAD can bag Group Three honours in the Tattersalls Stakes on the opening afternoon of the three-day Cambridgeshire meeting at Newmarket.

- By ANITA CHAMBERS

Promise in three prior starts - including when third to Mill Reef winner Words Of Truth and second to Venetian Prince, who was sixth in the hottest maiden run so far this year - came to fruition at Doncaster’s St Leger meeting, where he ran out an easy winner of a seven-furlong handicap.

An imposing sort, Roger Varian has not wasted any time in jumping up in class and this might not be the only nice race he gets involved in before the year is out.

The Hugo Palmer-trained Gold Dawn will hopefully have given the Wechaad (below) form a very timely boost in the Federation of Bloodstock Agents Nursery Handicap.