Trainer Richard Spencer feels Alabama Whitman has the best chance of making it winner number two for the stable at Royal Ascot.
Fourth in the Albany Stakes last year, the three-year-old is heading for the Sandringham Handicap on Gold Cup day, June 18.
Spencer enjoyed a fairytale start to his career at the royal meeting in 2017- as Rajasinghe's Coventry Stakes triumph for Phil Cunningham and Rebel Racing was just his ninth since taking out a licence.
“She’s in great form and is going straight for the Sandringham,” Spencer said about Alabama Whitman.
“Her form tailed off last year, she had a hard race in the Albany Stakes, then she won her maiden at Carlisle and after that she wasn’t really the same filly as we’d seen at the start of the season.
“She’s had a nice break.
"She’s done really well over the winter. It is a hard task to go to the Sandringham without having had a run, but a lot of people are going to be in the same boat and she’s fit and well.”
The second contender from Sefton Lodge's small team for the behind-closed-doors fixture is Keyser Soze.
Five times a winner for connections, the six-year-old is rated 8lb lower on the turf than the all-weather.
His race plan centres around getting a run in either the Buckingham Palace Handicap or Royal Hunt Cup.
"He went for a racecourse gallop at Chelmsford last week and worked well," Spencer said.
"The occasion usually gets to him, so racing behind closed doors could be in our favour this year. He is in good form.”
Spencer’s two-year-olds are again to the fore and recent Newmarket maiden runners, Wings Of A Dove and Ocean Eyes, are being aimed at the meeting.
"Ocean Eyes has been working really well at home," he added.
"All being well she could run in the Albany Stakes.
“If Wings Of A Dove could get in at Ascot, she’d show up.
"She is good and very fast.
“The track probably didn’t suit (when fifth at Newmarket on debut), but she was the last one off the bridle.
"I like her a lot. She is doing everything well at home.”
- Spencer's Stable Tour features in today's Mirror racing supplement, free inside the daily newspaper every day this week and throughout Royal Ascot
