Newmarket-based Robert Cowell is known as the ‘sprint king’ for a reason: for many years he has been a masterful trainer of horses that race over the minimum trips of five furlongs and six furlongs.

It was telling that in an interview for his Racing Post Weekender stable tour last week, he indicated he would rather train another winner of the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot – now the King Charles III Stakes – than the Epsom Derby. The King’s Stand is a race that he won in 2011 with Prohibit but it’s probably fair to say that every other trainer in the country would much prefer a Derby winner on their CV.

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I have a feeling that JAKAJARO could just be Cowell’s next top-class sprinter, judged on the way he defeated a decent field of handicappers at York with some ease just eight days ago – despite the fact that he was dawn on the unfavourable far side of the track. Cowell clearly has a high opinion of this improving sprinter because he has given him an entry in the Grade 1 King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot next month.Tomorrow Jakajaro faces some proven Group 1 performers in Haydock’s Grade 2 William Hill Temple Stakes (3.30 p.m.) over five furlongs. This horse reminds me........

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