Brian Meehan has issued a minor warning that he expects ante-post Watership Down Stud Too Darn Hot Greenham Stakes favourite Rashabar to improve for the run at Newbury on Saturday.

A shock 66/1 winner of the Coventry Stakes under Billy Loughnane at Royal Ascot last season, Rashabar proved the performance to be no fluke when going down narrowly in the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville before he finished a neck behind Aidan O'Brien's Camille Pissarro in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp on Arc day.

Whilst Brian Meehan is happy with how his colt has wintered, he does expect the son of Holy Roman Emperor to take a step forward for his reappearance outing in the seven-furlong Watership Down Stud Too Darn Hot Greenham Stakes at Newbury this weekend.

"He's great," said Meehan, who won the contest for the same connections with subsequent French Guineas runner-up Isaac Shelby two years ago, told Sky Sports Racing. "He's had a very good winter and has been training really well."

Meehan added: "He's the same sort of character and is in really great form.

"We're really happy with him; he proved at the back end of the season that he was a good potential miler for this year when he was unlucky really in the Lagadere in Paris.

"I'm looking forward to stepping him up to a mile. Obviously, we have to get the trial out of the way. He's a big boy, and he will need his trial. That's what the Greenham is for, it will be the race following it that will be his big target.

"He's gone on everything (ground). The ground in Paris wasn't great; it was good ground in Deauville, and it was quick enough at Ascot, so he's proved on every ground really."

Whilst Meehan is looking forward to running his exciting three-year-old in either the English or French 2000 Guineas, the Manton House-based handler has hope that Rashabar could get further throughout the season.

"I think he could possibly get further (than a mile); he's out of a Camelot mare," said Meehan. "Holy Roman Emperor didn't train as a three-year-old; he went to stud, so we don't know how far he would have got.

"The Camelot mare encourages me, though and he gives the impression that he could get further than a mile. He is in the French Derby as well as the Guineas.

"He's qualified for the French premiums as well so that makes it even more attractive.

"We'll start at a mile and go from there. Obviously, get through the trial over seven furlongs on Saturday first."