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ZABEEL PRINCE and UAE Queen provided Sheikh Mohammed Obaid and the Varian Stable team with a regal across-the-card double at Yarmouth at Sandown on Wednesday, although the manner of their respective victories could hardly have been more contrasting, while Equitation completed the treble with success in the closing 6f handicap at Yarmouth.

DONCASTER maestro Andrea Atzeni produced another exquisite ride on Town Moor to bring Laugh A Minute from last to first and scoop the riches in the extremely lucrative £300,000 2YO Conditions Stakes on Thursday afternoon.

LAHORE produced an imperious performance to streak away with the seven-furlong handicap at Doncaster on Wednesday afternoon, the first leg of a double on the opening day of the St Leger Meeting for the Varian Stable team as Mount Logan repeated last year’s success in the ten-furlong conditions contest half an hour later.

ODEN ploughed through the testing conditions to make light work of his four rivals and get off the mark at the fifth time of asking in the 1m2f handicap at Brighton on Monday afternoon.

CAPE BYRON produced a monstrous performance on his return from a 324-day lay-off to beat the progressive and race-fit Fire Brigade when landing the one mile classified contest at Ascot on Friday afternoon, confirming himself as a horse for whom the sky is the limit.

REALTRA motored home under an inspired Colin Keane to defy a penalty and record her third victory at Group 3 level in the Fairy Bridge Stakes at Tipperary on Thursday evening.

ALJULJALAH came from last to first under a super-confident Andrea Atzeni to record a second career success in the valuable seven-furlong fillies’ conditions race at Chelmsford on Thursday afternoon.

FUJAIRA BRIDGE winged around the idiosyncratic cambers of Epsom in the style of an old professional when recording his second victory of the season in the extended one mile handicap on an atypically sunny afternoon for a Bank Holiday Monday.

A MASTERFUL Andrea Atzeni produced one of his finest rides to make all aboard Ajman Princess in the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville on Sunday, securing a first Group 1 win for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid’s daughter of Teofilo while providing the Varian Stable team with our second top-flight winner of the season.

DEFOE continued his rapid ascent through the ranks and took his seasonal tally to four victories from four starts with a smooth-travelling success in the G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury on Saturday, cementing his claims as a leading contender for the G1 St Leger at Doncaster next month.

SHARJA BRIDGE and Great Court provided the team with a Friday double when the pair of three-year-olds broke their maidens at Nottingham and Wolverhampton respectively yesterday.

ELATION put her debut experience to good use when breaking her maiden at the second time of asking in the six-furlong fillies’ novice heat at Ripon on Monday afternoon.