Newbury Saturday

WITH almost £100,000 to the winner, it’s hard to argue that the Weatherbys Super Sprint wasn’t the race of the weekend in Britain, for all it lacks blacktype status. While he has a long way to go to emulate his father’s haul of seven winners, Richard Hannon is also making a habit of winning the coveted prize, and produced a third winner of his own in the contest with Gubbass (Sean Levey), who beat stablemate Symphony Perfect (Ben Curtis) by half a length to secure a 4/1 success.