ANDREA Atzeni may have been bitterly disappointed when Simple Verse was temporarily stood down in the St Leger but that decision was reversed on appeal and everything else at Doncaster has gone extremely well for him and last Saturday’s big-race triumph was the middle leg of a treble.

Ralph Beckett’s 9/4 favourite Argus stayed on gamely to thwart Mistiroc in the mile and a half handicap and Mick Channon’s Scrutineer took the seven-furlong nursery with remarkable ease, having been backed down to 10/11.