SAKHEER was the highlight on a special day for Roger Varian. On Saturday, the trainer saddled seven winners from his Carlburg Stables, six days after landing the Group 1 St Leger with Eldar Eldarov.

Another common thread between those two horses is that they are both in the ownership of Sheikh Khalid’s KHK Racing, and, who knows, he may yet have another classic colt in his ownership. On just his third start, Sakheer was a hugely impressive winner of the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes, and it was clear in the aftermath that the colt’s trainer holds him in the highest regard.