OWEN Burrows has never had a St Leger runner before, but he can look forward to another first after the success of Hukum (Jim Crowley) in the Group 3 Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Geoffrey Freer Stakes over Newbury’s extended 13 furlongs.

Earlier this year, the son of Sea The Stars provided the former conditional jockey Burrows with his first Royal Ascot winner when an impressive winner of the King George V Handicap, and he looks likely to head to Doncaster after powering two and a half lengths clear of the pace-setting Max Vega (Ralph Beckett/Harry Bentley) to land a 4/1 success.