IT ALL POINTS TO WEST LANDING A DREAM SUCCESS
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LIVE IN THE DREAM has the right profile to give local trainer Adam West the biggest win of his career by landing the Simpex Express ‘Dash’ Handicap (3.45) at Epsom.
The son of Prince Of Lir has taken a step forward in each of his four outings of 2022, following a sixth at Lingfield Park and a fourth at Thirsk with an all-the-way score at Sandown Park in April.
Live In The Dream went up 8lb as a result of his three-and-threequarter-length verdict in Esher, but stayed ahead of the handicapper with a follow-up at Chester’s May fixture last time out.
Soon in front from his stall-two draw, my selection came clear on the run to the line to hold Nymphadora by two and a quarter lengths.
There’s another 7lb rise to a new British Horseracing Authority rating of 99 to deal with here, but Sean Kirrane’s 3lb claim comes in handy and Live In The Dream, berthed in stall 17 here, will be hard to peg back against the stands’ rail.
Charlie Hills’ team is ticking over at a healthy one-in-four strike rate, and MUTASAABEQ gets the vote for the Group 3 Cazoo Diomed Stakes (3.10).
A son of Invincible Spirit and Ghanaati, the 1,000 Guineas heroine of 13 years ago, Mutasaabeq returned to action to gain a fourth career success in a conditions event at Thirsk on Grand National day.
The partner of Jim Crowley (below) finished a neck second to Lights On in the Group 2 bet365 Mile at Sandown 13 days later but didn’t get the breaks that day.
There is still the scope for further progress on the ninth outing of his career, and Mutasaabeq is capable of serving it up to favourite Modern News.
The Hughie Morrison-saddled MRS FITZHERBERT is the selection to confirm her superiority over Goodwood victim Bashkirova in the Group 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2.35).
Half a length separated the pair in the Listed Conqueror Fillies’ Stakes on the South Downs at the end of April, when Mrs Fitzherbert overcame traffic problems to register a third triumph from eight attempts, and there is more to come.
However, revenge could be on the cards for NOLTON CROSS, a promoted second to War Horse at Sandown last month, in the opening Cazoo Handicap (2.00).
Having been headed entering the final quarter mile in a four-runner affair, Nolton Cross was fighting back when short of room at the furlong pole and meets reopposes on 2lb better terms for a length-and-a-quarter beating.