Trainer Robert Cowell is confident Goldream will deliver the goods when he competes in the King‘s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The eight-year-old was expected to shine last weekend when he ran in the Temple Stakes at Haydock.
However, Cowell’s stable star missed the start and was several lengths behind his rivals when the race got going. He proved his class by finishing within half a length of the winner Priceless and Cowell is confident he will not make the same mistake at Royal Ascot next month.
He told reporters: “He just missed the break. It was so unlike him. He’d never done that before in his life, but on Saturday he did by three or four lengths.
“To sit second last on that sort of ground against that calibre of horse, he did remarkably well to get so close to the winner at the finish.
“He’s fine and has come out of it well, and if he can break on terms back at Ascot, a course he loves and on the fast ground he loves, I think he will be a major player.”
