Snow on target for Royal Ascot after Sandown spin

Ed Dunlop remains keen on a trip to Royal Ascot with Snow Fairy after the mare came through a racecourse gallop at Sandown on Thursday with flying colours.

The six-time Group One-winner has not been seen in competitive action since her exhilarating victory in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown last September, but continues to please her trainer in her preparations for a fifth campaign in training.

Dunlop is in no rush to commit his charge to the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Ascot on June 19, with the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh at the end of the month a viable alternative if she is not ready to roll for the Royal meeting.