Lion set to roar at Lingfield

John Dunlop’s improving three-year-old Let The Lion Roar could put his Vodafone Derby credentials on the line at Lingfield Park on Saturday.

The half-brother to 2000 St Leger winner Millenary is among 15 entries for the Gallagher Group Ltd Derby Trial at the Surrey track.

Let The Lion Roar still looked a shade green when beating Top Seed at Newbury over 10 furlongs on his seasonal reappearance and is expected to be better suited by Saturday’s one mile three and a half furlongs.

The Mick Channon-trained Top Seed is also among the Lingfield entries.

Aidan O’Brien, John Gosden and Sir Michael Stoute are all double-handed.

O’Brien, whose Ballydoyle yard houses Derby favourite Yeats, is represented by Epsom entries Book Of Kings and Five Dynasties.

Gosden has entered Percussionist and Privy Seal, while Stoute’s possibles are Roehampton and North Light.

The entries are completed by Gold History, Hazyview, Isidore Bonheur, Maidstone Midas, Skidmark, Swainson and Temple Place.

The Derby Trial is sponsored for the first time by Gallagher Group Ltd, who are heavily involved with major refurbishments taking place at the track.

Managing director Pat Gallagher owns Leitrim House, who won the Group Three Rock Of Gibraltar EBF Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh today.