Massaat `might need it` Saturday Newbury preview
(WorldNews Sport)

Owen Burrows has warned Massaat is likely to be in need of the run in the Betfred Hungerford Stakes at Newbury on Saturday. Last year`s 2000 Guineas runner-up will be dropped back down to seven furlongs for the first time since October 2015 when he makes his seasonal return in the Group Two contest. The son of Teofilo, who also finished down the field in last year`s Epsom Derby, has not been seen since he trailed home last in a Group Three at Salisbury last August. Burrows said: `Massaat is as fit as I can get him at home but he will be rusty and he will come on for it. `I would not say he has grown a lot upwards but he has certainly filled out - but he was always a big horse. `He is a year...