Niall Saville is trying to expand his stable, and Legendary just might be the showcase horse he needs to grab the attention of prospective owners. Last Saturday at Laurel, Legendary gave Saville his first stakes win by scoring an emphatic victory in the $100,000 Japan Racing Association Stakes. Saville now is pointing the 5-year-old to the Grade 3, $200,000 Knickerbocker at Belmont Park on Oct. 11. The 1 1/8-mile turf race seems like a realistic goal. Legendary has improved steadily in his five U.S. starts and knocked off his first- and second-level allowance conditions at the Belmont spring-summer meet. “I’m eager to get him back on the Belmont course,” Saville said. “It’s a big, galloping track, and he can get into a rhythm over it. It really suits him.” Saville, 31, owns a barn at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland and winters at Palm Meadows in Florida. He currently has 12 horses. As with Legendary, half are Great Britain imports. Legendary is owned by former English riding great and trainer Walter Swinburn. Primarily a low-level synthetic-track handicapper overseas, Legendary was sent to Saville last winter. Swinburn and Saville have known each other for a little more than a year. “Mr. Swinburn was selling a horse at the summer horses in training sale,” Saville said. “I told my contact I would buy half if Mr. Swinburn would send him over to me to train, which he did. The Swinburns visited us at Christmas last year in Florida and liked the way we do things. He sent me some horses.” Legendary is very nervous and has taken a lot of patience, according to Saville. “He is the greenest 5-year-old I’ve ever had,” Saville said. “In England, he was always pulling to the front and then getting caught. That’s why he ended up on the synthetic because they go a little faster, and there was a better chance to take him back.” Saville has taught Legendary to come from off the pace and has schooled him extensively in the paddock and at the starting gate. Legendary has a miniature pony at Fair Hill to help keep him calm. Saville credits Rosie Napravnik for working with Legendary this spring at Keeneland and for educating him during his U.S. debut, a race in which he rallied from eighth to finish second. Legendary has since won 3 of 4 starts and earned $146,000. At Laurel last weekend, Legendary relaxed nicely for jockey Sheldon Russell and accelerated when set down in the upper stretch. He earned a 98 Beyer Speed Figure in the 1 1/16-mile turf race. “That was the race I really wanted to see from him,” Saville said. “I thought he showed a lot of energy.” Saville is from Northern England. Although on the big side, he rode jump races before coming to the U.S. in 2005 to work for Michael Dickinson. He also worked as an exercise rider for Graham Motion before striking out on his own as a trainer in 2008. “Fair Hill is a great place, and it is the perfect in-between for a lot of horses, especially nervous ones like Legendary,” Saville said. “We have a lot of different training options.”