Stuart Crawford © Photo Healy Racing
Stuart Crawford has high hopes for his recent Ayr winners - Ayiko and I Love My Baie.
Both were successful at the Scottish venue on December 20th, with Ayiko making the breakthrough on his second start in the concluding bumper.
I Love My Baie, who was recording his third career win, claimed a Novices' Hurdle, having previously took minor honours in Grade 2 company at Haydock.
"Ayiko could be a horse for Leopardstown - he could go for the bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival," Crawford revealed.
"I think there is a race in Doncaster at the end of January for I Love My Baie, a Graded race, so he might end up going into that.
"It was a good race in Ayr the last day, it was only a small field but Mark Walford's horse (Magic Wave) would be a decent horse.
"The fact that we were third in a Graded race the time before (Grade 2, Haydock) and we weren't even favourite gives you an idea of how they rated Mark's horse.
"He has run well. We probably won't go too deep with him too soon, we will wait until maybe later on in the spring for maybe Aintree."
Additional reporting by Michael Graham
