Marco Botti has one eye on a possible G1 Melbourne Cup bid for his prolific winner Dylan Mouth (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}). The triple Group 1 winner, successful in twelve of his fifteen starts, most recently in the G2 Gran Premio Di Milano at San Siro last Sunday, has the ideal temperament in Botti's opinion for such a venture. “There are a lot of options as he travels so well, and we can look to try to get some good prize-money with him,” Botti told Racing Post. “One race the owner would really like to have a runner in is the Melbourne Cup, so that could be a longer-term target. There's also Canada and he'll run somewhere over here [Britain] as well. It's just that when you have a horse that can travel well it opens up a lot more options,” added the Newmarket trainer. Until last year Dylan Mouth was trained in Italy for owners Scuderia Effevi by Marco Botti's brother Stefano until they transferred the 5-year-old to Newmarket to increase the horse's options for international competition.
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