Honey looking sweet prospect

WILLIA M HA GGA S does not send many runners to Musselburgh, but has a 30% strike-rate with the handful that have made the journey from Newmarket to the Edinburgh circuit in the last five years.

The latest Haggas raider to make the 700-mile round trip is Brown EyEd HonEy, who aims to open her account at the second attempt in the British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes.

The juvenile ran a highly encouraging race when fourth on her racecourse bow on Newmarket's July course last month and this race looks far less taxing.

TruE PlEasurE has appeared much improved in winning her last two starts and has an excellent chance to complete the hattrick in the 32Red Handicap.

The lightly-raced daughter of Choisir struck twice as a three-year-old in 2010, albeit at a fairly lowly level, but it is fair to assume she has suffered more than her fair share of problems since.

She was not sighted for the next two seasons, but the fact she was brought back at the start of this year suggests trainer James Bethell felt she was worth persevering with.

The six-year-old’s comeback did not get off to the best of starts as she finished well beaten on her first three starts back on the all-weather at Wolverhampton before tailing off in a selling hurdle at Cartmel.

However, she suddenly sprang into life with a fair third at Kempton in mid-June and has continued to progress, running fifth at Newcastle before claiming back-to-back triumphs at Carlisle and A yr.

True Pleasure won with a degree of authority on that latest visit to Scotland and with this step back up in distance likely to suit, she will take some stopping.