Roses heading to Doncaster The John Oxx trained Roses For The Lady is on target for the £100,000 DFS sponsored Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster next week. Oxx revealed today: “I would say Roses For The Lady is a likely runner in the DFS Park Hill Stakes. Obviously, she likes soft ground, which she is not going to get but I would say we are quite likely to run her at Doncaster - it would be nice to get a drop of rain. “It has been a terribly dry summer here in Ireland and we have had fast ground all the way through. She tolerates it but it doesn’t suit her. It has restricted her a bit and we were happy to wait for an autumn campaign hoping that the weather would change but there is still no sign of that, so we will just have to grin and bear it and let her take her chance. “We were delighted with her first run this year at Navan when she won because the ground was on the firm side of good that day. She ran an even better race in the Curragh Cup, a tougher race, when she was third again on fast ground. “She disappointed the other day at the Curragh in the Ballycullen Stakes but she got quite worked up beforehand and didn’t run her race. If we can keep her a bit more relaxed in the preliminaries this time, hopefully she will return back to one of her better performances.”
