DESIRE TO CHALLENGE FOR REGENCY HONOURS

Ian Fortune

Ireland will have a challenger for the Coral Regency which gets underway at Hove on Saturday night with Lennies Desire amongst those in action in the opening round.

Paul Hennessy and Lee Craze have clearly made the decision that their brilliant son of Signet Ace will remain over six bends and the choice to challenge for the famous competition adds real spice to the Category 1.

Worth a whopping stg£20,000 to the winner, he has been entered as a middle seed and has drawn trap five in his opening round assignment. He will line up without the benefit of a previous look around the track but there is no reason he can’t shine at Hove which more than any other track in the UK resembles an Irish style circuit.