Trainer Richard Hannon is feeling positive about Happy Romance’s future after she scored on day two of York‘s Ebor Festival.
Happy Romance, under the guidance of Sean Levey, produced a brilliant performance to win the 6f Goffs UK Premier Yearling Stakes, finishing a length-and-a-quarter ahead of Devious Company in second.
Connections are now deliberating where to send the two-year-old, who also triumphed at Sandown Park earlier in the year, next and Hannon has already thought of a couple of options for his charge.
“I thought she answered a lot of questions, she got the trip – I don’t think she loved the ground, I thought she struggled in it early on but she got to the front quite easily,” he told ITV Racing. “I do think she’s more than just a flash in the pan two-year-old and she will get seven furlongs.
“There’s a sales race at Doncaster but we’d love to get some black type with her. The Firth of Clyde might be just the race for her. I bet we see her at the Fred Darling at Newbury in April.”
Levey also reacted to the victory, saying: “She’s a beautiful filly. She’s laid back and only does what you ask her to do. We liked her from the get go. I had the race put to bed from a long way out. She pulled up a little bit at the end.”
