Hot Prospect is set for a step back up in class following an impressive success in the totescoop6 Heritage Handicap at Haydock.
Trained by Michael Jarvis for Alan Spence, Hot Prospect (5-1) cruised into the lead just over a furlong out in the mile-and-a-quarter test and pulled clear to win by an eased-down one and three-quarter lengths from Magaling.
"I have just had a horse beaten by a short head at Ascot so I have come to the right place," said Spence.
"The plan had been to run Hot Prospect in either the Rose Of Lancaster earlier in the afternoon or this handicap and we decided that if he won or ran well in that race (Rose Of Lancaster), he wouldn't be able to go for a handicap afterwards.
"So we went for this and he can now go for a Listed or Group race. We have a few options because although he won on soft ground today, he does not mind the firm either."
Neil Callan, who deputised for the suspended Philip Robinson in the saddle, added: "He did it very well, but he was a Group horse in a handicap."
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