IT'S a dream come true for Eddie Evans.

The owner/breeder has watched his horse rattle off an 18-day hat-trick of victories, all of them with the colt leading from pillar to post under jockey Franny Norton.

Medburn Dream's exciting sequence started at Windsor on April 11, continued at Epsom nine days later and he completed the treble over an extended mile at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, on Friday making him unique in British Flat racing this year as the only horse to have won his first three outings on turf in 2016.

In-form trainer Paul Henderson, whose Whitsbury stable has had six winners in as many weeks, said: “Medburn Dream just keeps improving. He makes the running because he breaks so well from the stalls – he always has done – and gains a length on the others straightaway. At Epsom he had a bad draw but he was away so quickly he found himself in the lead and won comfortably.”

Evans, who bred the horse by Whitsbury Stud stallion Showcasing out of all-weather middle-distance winner Tiegs, said: “Medburn Dream has won all three on the bridle and has not even been blowing afterwards. Franny is the boss – he said 'let me teach him the game' and he's certainly done that.”

The horse never looked like being caught at Chepstow where he started 7-4 favourite in the 10-runner field and won by two and a half lengths with Norton easing down in the closing stages on the rain-softened going. Henderson plans to keep him on the go and could aim for a four-timer at Ascot this Friday evening or at Haydock Park on Saturday.

This is not the first sporting three-timer for Evans. During his time racing and breeding greyhounds he posted a hat-trick with Medburn Nosher at Reading in 2007. His dog days are not forgotten as his racing colours reflect the colours of all six traps, the striped cap denoting trap six.