Glittering Legend kept Listed Burradon Stakes honours in the family, as he replicated the success of half-brother Megallan with a victory at Newcastle on Friday.

Megallan, trained by John and Thady Gosden, secured the mile Listed event in 2021 before adding two Group 3 events before the end of his career – the Sovereign Stakes and the Diomed Stakes. Glittering Legend boasts a similar profile as a horse on the improve, having won a conditions event at Kempton before his first step up to Black Type company.

It was a straightforward task for jockey Daniel Muscutt, who was always prominent behind the leaders in the early stages. Glittering Legend hit the front with a furlong to go, and despite hanging left in the closing half-furlong, he held off favourite Bowmark by a neck.

Winning trainer James Fanshawe said: "I am absolutely delighted – Glittering Legend is a star horse. Mark McStay bought him at the Somerville Sale. He was very naughty to begin with but, now he is getting it together, he is a really useful three-year-old.

"I told Dan to get some cover because we thought there would be some pace, but it looked like in front they were controlling it – it didn't look like they were going that quick. He is tough, experienced, and that probably stood him in good stead today.

"He came there travelling beautifully and I just hoped he'd seen the Gosden horse up the middle. That's the thing in these sorts of races at this time of year, you don't know what you are taking on. I think it was quite a way back to the third as well.

"The question now is whether we step him up to a mile and a quarter. I'll speak to Mr Ho his owner and we'll come up with a plan from there, but I would say he will end up at Royal Ascot."

Muscutt added: "Glittering Legend was taking on some fairly talked-up rivals, but we were bullish about this horse. He is plenty streetwise enough and I think that counted for a lot.

"I probably had the cleanest run of the whole race, just in behind the speed. He had to work in between horses and challenge on the right part of the track, and he hit the line good.

"He is not a slow miler by any stretch of the imagination – he has a good turn of foot, especially in a decent-run mile. He has many gears but, given how he hit the line and galloped out, going further would be an option further down the line."