Mubtaker takes big step towards Arc

Mubtaker, Europe’s highest-rated horse still in training after last season, put himself firmly into the reckoning for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when making a successful reappearance at Newbury today.

Marcus Tregoning’s seven-year-old, runner-up to Dalakhani in the French feature last October, was gaining his third straight success in the Group Two Stan James Geoffrey Freer Stakes.