Trainer Adam West believes Live In The Dream will be "a force to be reckoned with" in Saturday's Betfred Temple Stakes at Haydock Park.
The four-year-old won handicaps at Sandown and also at the May Festival at Chester last season and started the new campaign with another success on all-weather victory at Lingfield in March. The gelded son of Prince Of Lir followed up in another handicap in soft conditions at Pontefract, before stepping up to Group Three company at Newmarket at the start of the month. He was only just beaten into second late on by Vadream in the Palace House Stakes at Headquarters and is set to step again to Group Two company in the feature at the Merseyside track this weekend.
It will be Live In The Dream's biggest test and he is a best-priced 7-1 with William Hill against the likes of proven Group performers – The Platinum Queen and Dramatised – who are 3-1 and 4-1 respectively at the head of the betting. But his Epsom-based trainer is hopeful he can prove he deserves to be pitched into this higher grade.
