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Blissful Hoping to Give Handler Another Winning Ebor Moment
25/07/11

Former champion trainer Sir Michael Stoute has won the prestigious Ebor Handicap three times in the last three decades and hopes appear high that the Freemason Lodge handler can again send out the winner of the premier European mile-and-three-quarter handicap with his Blissful Moment, a highly progressive son of Dynaformer, writes Elliot Slater.

Stoute first got his hands on the winners' trophy as far back as 1980 when the late Greville Starkey partnered 12/1 shot Shaftesbury to victory. Ten years later another 12/1 shot Deposki, ridden by a very youthful Franny Norton, landed the spoils, whilst in 1996 it was the turn of the well supported 17/2 chance Clerkenwell, ridden by Fergal Lynch, to give Stoute his third and last success in the race to date.

Blissful Moment
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Blissful Moment
Blissful Moment appears to tick just about all of the right boxes as far as the Ebor is concerned, being an improving sort who seems to be crying out for the step up from a mile-and-a-half and those looking at the York Ebor betting should bear this in mind. Over that trip last time out the Saeed Suhail-owned gelding stayed-on well over the final quarter mile to chase home Fox Hunt in finishing an honourable second in the Duke of Edinburgh Handicap at Royal Ascot, registering what to many people's eyes was the perfect sighter for an assault on the big York handicap on August 20. Fans of Betfair York Ebor 2011 racing will be looking forward to seeing him in action again.

Raised just 2lbs for that effort to a mark of 98, there is a body of opinion that suggests that Blissful Moment may well prove to be well handicapped and this view has been backed up by cash with good support arriving to force the Stoute charge's odds down to a best priced 12/1 co-third favourite in the ante-post list, behind 10/1 joint-market leaders Mount Athos and Saptapadi.

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