Coral Racing Ambassador, Hugo Palmer, previews the chances of his only runner on Saturday, Dream Voyage, in the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket.

A quiet Saturday for us with just the one runner down at Newmarket in the Sweet Solera, but we have a couple of nice chances at Haydock on Friday evening, so hopefully by the time you’re reading this we’ll have had a couple of winners already, but I’ll try and not be too greedy!

15:40 Newmarket – Dream Voyage

Dream Voyage is a really lovely filly by a top-class stallion in Kingman, and out of a well-bred Galileo mare in Butterscotch, and everything she has done both at home and on the track has really pleased us, so hopefully she can take this step up in grade in her stride. Although the maiden that she ran so well in on debut didn’t look the hottest race Newmarket had ever seen at the time, it’s actually thrown up a lot of winners, so the form is working out, and I was really happy with how she won at Salisbury last time. The form of the Salisbury race has yet to be properly tested, but she won it easily, so she’s entitled to give it a go in this higher grade.

She goes up in trip to 7f which should suit, and I’d hope she’d get a mile next year, but she does have quite a habit of wanting to get on with things, so that might hinder her getting a mile, but we’ll find that out in time, and for the moment, I’m very comfortable trying 7f with her.

She’s 20-1 at the time of writing which I think is far too big a price, and I’d say she goes there with a much better chance than those odds suggest. Charlie Appleby’s filly ran very well in the Duchess Of Cambridge, but that form just looks ok, and Aidan’s filly won a Curragh maiden in taking fashion, so these are clearly fillies with plenty of potential, but Dream Voyage is a filly with plenty of potential, so I think she’s capable of running a big race.

Hugo Palmer, Coral Racing Ambassador