A SPA horse racing enthusiast has enjoyed the track triumph he always "furlonged" for.

Don Lewis and fellow members of the Elite Racing Club stole the limelight at Ascot when their horse, Soviet Song, won the Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile - a Group One race.

The £200,000 prize is the biggest win the club's 10,000 members have ever scooped and 68-year-old Don is still on cloud nine.

Horses worth millions, owned by Arab sheiks, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Prince Khalid Abdulla, have previously stolen the title but Elite members proved that the minnows can take on sharks and win.

The amazing tale featured in the Sunday Telegraph and after being interviewed by leading commentator Brough Scott, Don was delighted to see his name in print alongside the racing world's big spenders.

The Barnscroft Way resident said: "I pay £169 a year to join the club which owns 20 horses and five brood mares.

"I'm not a big gambler but I love horses and the sport. My true delight is that we bred this filly from our own stock, which proves our animals are getting better and stronger.

"The races we usually enter have prizes of several thousand pounds so this victory was unprecedented.

"I and fellow member Brian Hoye, also of Droitwich, joined in the cheering which echoed across Ascot after the race."

Soviet Song, a two-year-old bay, is trained by James Fanshawe and ridden by Spaniard Oscar Urbina.

Following her success on Saturday, September 28, she will now be wrapped in cotton wool until her next big day out at Newmarket's 1,000 Guineas, in May, for which she is the second favourite.

Don, who is retired from the construction industry, added: "The club is a wonderful way to access the sport and jubilation of winning, knowing you own a stake in the winner, is unbeatable."