Bastiman Confident

Robin Bastiman is looking to stable stalwart Borderlescott to give his Wetherby yard a much-needed boost in the totesport 0800 221 221 City Wall Stakes at Chester.

Bastiman has not had a winner for two months and a few of his horses have not run up to scratch recently, including Singeur at Newmarket on Wednesday, but Borderlescott appears to be in good form.

"He's fine, everything's OK. One or two of mine haven't been running too well, but he's come up all right scope-wise," said the trainer.

"We don't know what went wrong with Singeur at Newmarket the other day, but I'm sure we'll find out. They are animals after all."

Borderlescott took this Listed race from stall two 12 months ago before going to Glorious Goodwood, where he was fourth in the Audi Stakes on the way to landing the Nunthorpe Stakes for the second year running.

Bastiman has decided to take the same route this year, with the Group One at York in August again the ultimate objective.

"He's got the rail draw (one) and I'm fine with that. It's better than 10 of 10 anyway. He'll run his race, hopefully," he went on.

"After Chester he goes to Goodwood again and then the Nunthorpe. That's his plan. I could have run him at Sandown last week, but I thought I'd go the same route as last year. Hopefully he'll have his day again."

Tom Queally gets the leg up on the eight-year-old for the first time as his regular partner Neil Callan is in action at Ascot.

Bastiman added: "Tom's riding well at the moment and ours is a straightforward horse to ride. I'm sure he'll be all right on him."