Newbury Saturday

UNTIL the weekend, Owen Burrows’s Tabdeed had looked something of a flat-track bully, with an impressive strike-rate, but a disappointing record at stakes level, but he belatedly proved himself a genuinely group-class sprinter, by swooping late under a typically cool Jim Crowley to beat the other 4/1 joint-favourite The Tin Man (James Fanshawe/Oisin Murphy) by half a length.