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Royal Ascot's Bright Trainers
30/06/11

There were two trainers in particular that can look back on Royal Ascot with pride and pleasure, especially as each of them had suffered their own travails and tribulations over the past couple of seasons. Both James Fanshawe and Tom Dascombe will be breathing a little easier after the Royal Meeting after recording doubles.

Deacon Blues
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Although Fanshawe is a very talented trainer can sometimes be one of the "forgotten" Newmarket trainers but when you take a look at his overall record you realise what a talent he was and still is. The former assistant to Sir Michael Stoute has been training in his own right for just over 20 years now and quickly moved into gear with a Group 1 win in the Eclipse and he further proved his versatility with a win with Hors La Loi in the Champion Hurdle. Further Group 1 success has followed along with a second Champion Hurdle but over the past few years the "big-wins" column has been rather bare, as anyone who keeps track of the online horse betting odds will have known.

However, in little over an hour Fanshawe burst back onto the Group 1 scene with Society Rock gaining the trainer's first Group 1 win for six years – since the days of Soviet Song – in the Golden Jubilee and then for good measure followed that up with a victory in the Wokingham courtesy of Deacon Blues, a 220-1 double to fire Fanshawe back into the limelight.

But don't label Fanshawe as a sprint specialist, he's won an Irish Leger, a Prix Du Cadran and a couple of Champion Hurdles, versatility should be his middle name.

Tom Dascombe unlike Fanshawe didn't have any Royal Ascot victories on the board and his career had rather reached a hiatus of late after he burst on the training scene a few years ago with his yearly winning tallies getting better and better. But the move North proved problematic and he struggled to get to grips with the change in training regime and those placing horse bets were put off his charges.

Those problems look to be over now and since April this year the winners have been flowing and two Royal Ascot winners firmly pointed the way forward for Dascombe. Rhythm Of Light provided the first success of the week but we are sure that it was the Michael Owen owned Brown Panther who stuck in the memory as the Dascombe winner to follow. Not many horses win Ascot handicaps by six lengths let alone those at the Royal Meeting and Brown Panther looks sure to record further successes outside of handicap company.