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Create A Dream 'up there with the best', says Ward

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Wesley Ward

US maestro Wesley Ward is back with another pair of juvenile fillies

  PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos) 

 By Mark Scully 5:24PM 1 APR 2016 

WESLEY WARD is in no mood to play down the hype surrounding his Betway Brocklesby raider Create A Dream, comparing the filly with the best horses he has ever brought to Britain.

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The American trainer has become renowned for his precocious juveniles and has plundered Royal Ascot riches with the likes of No Nay Never, Hootenanny and the giant filly Acapulco, who blitzed her rivals in last year’s Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes.

For the first time though, Ward has now set his sights on Doncaster and has made no secret of his admiration for his daughter of Oasis Dream.

Create A Dream came to me and started breezing and from what I’ve seen so far, she’d just jump right right up there with all the ones I’ve brought over to Ascot in the past, at least in the mornings,” he said.

“It just remains to be seen what she’ll do in the afternoon!”

Different physique to Acapulco

Racegoers at Royal Ascot last summer could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw the size of Acapulco in the parade ring but Ward is not anticipating providing such a shock on Town Moor on Saturday.

“She wouldn’t look like Acapulco [in terms of her size],” he said.

“She’s a European pedigree and probably has more of a European look to her. She’s a tidy horse and she’s just a beautiful filly.”

Kempton in Ward’s sights too

Ward’s British raid is not confined to Doncaster on Saturday, with another juvenile filly, New Trier, set to line up in Kempton’s opening Betfred TV/British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes.

Despite making her debut on the Polytrack, Ward revealed it was when he began to work the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor on the turf that she really began to show signs of promise.

“New Trier is a very nice filly,” he said. “She’s done everything right.

“We breezed her on the dirt back at Palm Meadows but as soon as I put her on the grass, she really turned around and you could see the breeding came out in her.”

Flying visit for Valdivia

Frankie Dettori will team up with Create A Dream but a less familiar name will greet racegoers at Kempton, with the US-based Jose Valdivia Jnr hopping across the Atlantic to partner New Trier.

While his trip, which will last a little over 24 hours, is an arduous one, Valdivia says the opportunity to ride a filly who could well be Royal Ascot-bound was too good to turn down.

“Wesley asked me to come over and I jumped at the chance,” said the Peruvian-born 41-year-old.

“I’m actually on holiday as I finished at Fair Grounds on Sunday and I’m not riding again until Friday at Keeneland. I know it’s not much money but when Wesley asks you to ride a juvenile of his it’s hard to say no.

“I’m really looking forward to it and if I can come back for Royal Ascot I’d love to, who wouldn’t? It’s the holy grail and Wesley does so well there.”

 

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