Native Trail is a bay colt with no white markings bred in England by the Normandy-based Le Haras d'Haspel.

[5] He was from the fifteenth crop of foals sired by Oasis Dream, a sprinter who won the July Cup and the Nunthorpe Stakes in 2003 before becoming a very successful breeding stallion.

Starting the 8/11 favourite in a ten-runner field he appeared to be struggling a quarter of a mile from the finish, but went to the front inside the final furlong and drew away in the closing stages to win "readily" by four lengths from Royal Patronage.

A month after his win at Sandown the colt was stepped up in class for the Group 2 Superlative Stakes over the same distance at Newmarket Racecourse and went off the 11/4 second favourite behind Dhabab.

Native Trail tracked the leaders before gaining the advantage from the front-running Ebro River inside the final furlong and went clear of his rivals in "impressive" fashion to win by three and a half lengths from Point Lonsdale.

I took him to a gallop at Newmarket two weeks ago, and if you asked me then would he win a National Stakes I might have been a bit more on the fence, but he came on an awful lot for that... We put a cross-noseband on him too.

After racing in second place behind Dubawi Legend, Native Trail took the lead inside the final furlong and won "comfortably" by two lengths.