Ralph Beckett has won Lingfield's Listed Oaks Trial three times in the last 10 years and was second with the eventual G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Look Here (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) in 2008, so Camerone warrants special attention as his chosen representative this time. Off the mark at Brighton when last seen in October, the half-sister to the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast) has to improve to match the form of Pocketfullofdreams and Beckett is in the dark. “She runs, but quite how good she is we'll find out in the race,” he said. “I've won it three times and had a couple of others run well, it's a race I like.” From the Ballydoyle stable successful 12 months ago with the subsequent G1 Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner Seventh Heaven (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Pocketfullofdreams was runner-up in the 10-furlong Listed Salsabil S. at Navan on Apr. 23. Held in high regard by William Haggas, The Sky Is Blazing was the four-length winner of a mile maiden on Newcastle's Tapeta on debut on Mar. 31.
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