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Stoute’s improving veteran ‘looks a million dollars’

DAVID JENNINGS

THE Diamond Jubilee is run over exactly six furlongs. If it were run over six furlongs and six yards Dream Of Dreams would be a double winner of the race and going in search of a glorious hat-trick.

The evergreen son of Dream Ahead almost spoiled Blue Point’s swansong in 2019. Another stride was all Danny Tudhope required. It was a similar story in 2020 as Ryan Moore was gunning down Hello Youmzain with every stride but failed by a head to reel him in.

The older Dream Of Dreams is getting, the better he looks, and, just like 12 months ago, he arrives after a smooth success in a Listed sprint at Windsor.

Bruce Raymond, racing manager to owner Saeed Suhail, has issued an upbeat bulletin on Dream Of Dreams but he does not feel the seven-yearold is as effective on heavy ground as he is on a slicker surface.

Raymond said: “He’s going exceptionally well and looks a million dollars. I wouldn’t want the ground to go heavy as he probably wouldn’t be so effective on it, as is the case with most horses that sort of ground blunts their speed. I think he’ll be all right.”

What they say Alastair Donald, racing manager to King Power Racing, owners of Art Power and Happy Power

Both horses will love soft conditions. Things didn’t go right first-time out for Art Power and he wasn’t fully fit but in these conditions at Ascot I think he will run a big race. Happy Power is more of a seven-furlong horse, but a stiff six in this ground at Ascot could play to his strengths and I think he’s an each-way player.

William Haggas, trainer of Nahaarr

He’s in good form and came out of York, where he ran really well, fine. He’s won an Ayr Gold Cup on slow ground, but I have no idea how he would handle it if it was heavy. We’ll have to see about that.

Ed Walker, trainer of Starman

I’d say he’s 95 per cent certain to not run. It’s pretty brutal, really; we’ve got

this horse of a lifetime and we can’t run him. He’s been to Ascot once before on soft ground and didn’t perform; we don’t want to make the same mistake again.

David O’Meara, trainer of Summerghand

We thought we’d run here rather than carry top weight in the Wokingham. He ran satisfactorily in the Duke of York on a track that has never really seen him in his best light. He goes well at Ascot. The very soft ground I wouldn’t be certain of but we have run him on it before and he did okay.

Saeed bin Suroor, trainer of Final Song

Final Song ran some very good races out in Dubai over the winter but we were disappointed with her at York. She looks in good form at the moment, with the way she has been working in the mornings and how she looks. She has won on soft ground before, so conditions shouldn’t be an issue, and we are looking for another good run.

‘A stiff six in this ground could play to his strengths and I think he’s an each-way player’

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