After winners at 11-1, 5-1, 9-2, 7-2 and 11-4 in his past four columns, our pundit and resident website tipster Dave Nevison bids to continue the good work at Goodwood on Tuesday. Enjoy more action from Hamilton Park live on Racing TV.
Mount Olympus is still weighted below where he was last year and is on such good terms with himself that he might be able to win again.
He has undoubtedly taken well to the training of Alan King, winning two of his three starts for the yard this summer, and the masterstroke seems to have been the removal of all the headgear he had been wearing for a year previously. Mount Olympus definitely applied himself well last time in a competitive event at Leicester.
The five-year-old is in a race set to be run at a fast pace here and, given he has been successful when up with the leaders, that could be a concern. Yet he won his maiden at Nottingham coming from off the pace and I am not expecting Rossa Ryan (won on him twice) to get in an unnecessary and potentially damaging battle for the lead.
He has been raised 7lb for that very authoritive success and, even though the runner-up has been well beaten since, I don’t believe that run detracts from the winning performance. Temporize is still lower in the weights than when he began his handicapping career for Mark Johnston but clearly seems to have adjusted positively to Syd Hosie’s much smaller yard (only three further runners since the Goodwood win).
Temporize drops back down in trip here but there are simply not many races over two and a half miles and he obviously goes well at this unique track. This looks a good stepping stone to the Cesarewitch.
He is more than a character and has proved difficult at the start, but Amazonian Dream has performed very well recently and all he needs is a change of luck to repay the faith of connections.
He has been hampered, switched and generally unlucky in running on each of his last four starts but he still ran third under Gina Managan at Windsor last time.
Amazonian Dream runs off a mark of 75 here and Oisin Murphy - who won on him when he was rated 83 - is back on board now. Rod Millman has had four seconds from his latest five runners and the trainer too deserves a change of luck, and hopefully Amazonian Dream can deliver.