Baskerville Bound For Haydock

Peter Chapple-Hyam plans to aim Baskerville at the totepool Silver Bowl at Haydock on Saturday.

The three-year-old Foxhound colt has been quietly progressive this term, landing a seven-furlong Warwick maiden and then following up with a mile handicap triumph at Nottingham last Friday.

Now Chapple-Hyam is eyeing this weekend's Heritage Handicap at the Lancashire track for Baskerville, who has already demonstrated he can handle soft ground.

'I was very pleased with Baskerville's performance at Nottingham ? he keeps improving all the time and is a good, honest horse,' he said.

'He's likely to go to Haydock as he likes cut in the ground.

'The Silver Bowl is worth a lot of money so we may as well take our chance.'

Meanwhile, Chapple-Hyam gave the smart colt Aeroplane a pipe-opener on Tuesday morning ahead of the Listed King Charles II Stakes at Newmarket.

The son of Danehill Dancer, a seven-furlong maiden winner at the Craven meeting last month, showed up well on the Newmarket gallops where he exercised over about six furlongs with a fellow three-year-old.

The Newmarket-based handler told www.peterchapplehyam.com: 'The King Charles II has always been in my mind since he won his maiden.

'It looks like the right race for him at this stage of his career but I am expecting it to be pretty competitive.

'Since he won, he has been ticking over nicely but I would like to get one more piece of work into him ahead of Saturday.'

? PA Sport