LESS than a week after he saddled the St Leger winner at Doncaster, trainer Roger Varian sent out seven winners across three British tracks on Saturday.

The star of the septet was undoubtedly the two-year-old colt Sakheer who confirmed the promise of his clear-cut Haydock success with a bloodless victory in the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury.

Defeated only by inexperience on debut, he built on that first appearance on Merseyside last month before taking the step up to Group 2 level with aplomb on just his third start at the Berkshire venue.

Always well positioned tracking the early leader Shouldvebeenaring, the result was elementary once David Egan showed the son of Zoffany some daylight and pushed the button for home.

The 4/5 favourite scorched clear to return an emphatic three-and-a-half-length verdict at the line, with the victory bringing up a four-timer on the day for Egan.

The winner, a son of Zoffany who cost €550,000 at the Arqana Breeze Up Sale in May, is owned by KHK Racing Ltd, owners of St Leger winner Eldar Eldarov.

Varian said: “His work has always been very good, we thought he would win first time but he ran into a smart filly (Magical Sunset) at Windsor.

“He then won well at Haydock and he looks good. How good, I don’t know, but he is possibly the best of my two-year-olds.

“He has size and scope, he’s very exciting and I think he’ll stay seven furlongs or a mile.”

He added: “You can never really expect things to go as well for us as it has today, but everything is clicking.”

“He in the Middle Park, but it’s next week, very soon. We’ll have to see. He would need supplementing for the Dewhurst, but I think those two races are probably the ones on the table.”

Ayr winners

Up at Ayr, the Varian-trained Royal Champion finally made his mark in Pattern company with an impressive display to land the Virgin Bet Doonside Cup Stakes.

In touch with the leaders throughout the 10-furlong listed event, the 9/4 second-favourite was travelling menacingly when Jack Mitchell asked the son of Shamardal to go to the front two furlongs from home. The race was soon over as a contest and he came home five and a half lengths clear of the gallant runner-up Euchen Glen.

Always held in high regard by Varian, the four-year-old was winning for the second time this year having also struck in handicap company at Epsom on Oaks day. Bookmakers were impressed, halving the winner to 33/1 for the Champion Stakes.

He said: “I’m so pleased because I have always loved that horse.

“He’s run well in better races and has always given us the feel of a good horse at home. I don’t know what’s next, but I’m looking enthusiastically to him going forward.”

Varian – in tremendous form on the day – was soon in the winner’s enclosure once again when Dusky Lord took the Virgin Bet Ayr Silver Cup Handicap in clear-cut fashion.

The four-year-old who has threatened to land a big sprint handicap this summer, hit the front and went clear inside the final furlong to record a three-length success at 14/1.