Simon Crisford was out of luck with his first runner as a trainer at Meydan

Godolphin's former racing manager Simon Crisford was out of luck with his first runner as a trainer when Knavery was well beaten in the Fujairah Container Terminal Handicap at Meydan.

Oisin Murphy soon had the Qatar Racing-owned Knavery in front in the nine-and-a-half-furlong event, but he faded quite markedly once headed with less than two furlongs to go.

The four-year-old, who has joined Crisford's Newmarket team after leaving Roger Varian's stable, soon faded out of contention and only beat two rivals home.

Layl (6/1) took it up under Pat Dobbs and Doug Watson's runner quickly put the race to bed, going on to win comfortably by four and a half lengths from Street Act, ridden by Royston Ffrench, with Paul Hanagan's mount Jeeraan a nose behind in third.