Deacon on the rise as Katla disappoints Deacon Blues is an increasingly impressive young sprinter and he took the Dubai International World Trophy with ease at Newbury this afternoon. The Wokingham winner has successfully stepped up to Group class in the Hackwood Stakes on this course and in the Phoenix Sprint at the Curragh last time out, but James Fanshawe was forced to drop the 5-4 favourite down to five furlongs for the first time here. Winning rider Frankie Dettori played it cool, swooping late to pass Masamah and go on and win by a length at the line. "That was a relief really as he had a bit of a setback before the Sprint Cup at Haydock and it wasn't ideal to go five furlongs," said Fanshawe. "I needed to give him another race before the British Champions Sprint at Ascot next month. Society Rock will go for the same race too." Irish raider Katla ran no sort of race and finished a disappointing ninth of the ten runners with Kieran Fallon aboard.
