Ascot hero bids to extend Cox's fairytale season
My Dream Boat will try to continue to carry his trainer Clive Cox on his dream season when he bids to follow up a Royal Ascot victory with success in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes.
The outsider of six in a Prince of Wales's Stakes expected to confer superstar status on Japan's A Shin Hikari, the 16-1 winner My Dream Boat is now a leading hope for Sandown's all-aged 1m2f showpiece.
His triumph was one of two Group 1 successes for Cox at the royal meeting which have ensured 2016 will be the most successful campaign of the trainer's career. He has already reached the £1 million prize-money mark for the year and is only £12,000 short of his previous best in 2013.
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