Course winners are elementary for Archie Watson who now hopes to crack Ascot

Archie Watson: hopes Shumookhi could be a Royal Ascot fillyCredit: Alan Crowhurst

Catterick winners have been no problem for Archie Watson – who hopes that his latest could be good enough to run at Royal Ascot.

Shumookhi was just the third horse he'd sent on the 234-mile trip up from Lambourn and she returned as his second winner, having held off Society Queen by a neck in the novice auction stakes.

And the go-ahead trainer, in just his second full season with a licence, is now eyeing the royal meeting with the first horse he's trained for Saeed Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi.

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David CarrReporter

Published on 14 May 2018inReports

Last updated 18:46, 14 May 2018

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