Fastnet Rock’s Ocean Of Dreams A New TDN Rising Star

[Wandering Eyes]

There had already been two TDN Rising Stars during Saturday's action at Leopardstown by the time the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden came along, but in that mile contest Ballydoyle's Ocean Of Dreams (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}–All For Glory, by Giant's Causeway) categorically made it a third as he annihilated the opposition to suggest he could be one of the stable's big Derby players next summer. Settled in mid-division early by Seamie Heffernan, the Coolmore homebred from the heralded dynasty of Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars (Ire) made gradual progress out wide and stormed to the lead a furlong out.

Pounding through the mud to the line, the 9-2 shot hit that six lengths to the good over the experienced 3-1 favourite Invention (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with the Jim Bolger newcomer Fine Point (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) 1 3/4 lengths away in third. “The feeling from on top was very, very impressive,” was the statement from the normally-reserved Heffernan, who can always be relied on to tell it as it is. “I landed him two belts and he was gone. He's a good-moving horse and clean-winded–the good ones can handle any ground and they skip along on fast ground when they have the engine.” Ocean Of Dreams is the sixth TDN Rising Star for Fastnet Rock.

 

 

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