Hannon excited with Happy Romance potential

Trainer Richard Hannon is feeling positive about Happy Romance’s future after she scored on day two of York’s Ebor Festival.

Happy Romance, under the guidance of Sean Levey, produced a brilliant performance to win the 6f Goffs UK Premier Yearling Stakes, finishing a length-and-a-quarter ahead of Devious Company in second.

Connections are now deliberating where to send the two-year-old, who also triumphed at Sandown Park earlier in the year, next and Hannon has already thought of a couple of options for his charge.

“I thought she answered a lot of questions, she got the trip – I don’t think she loved the ground, I thought she struggled in it early on but she got to the front quite easily,” he told ITV Racing. “I do think she’s more than just a flash in the pan two-year-old and she will get seven furlongs.

“There’s a sales race at Doncaster but we’d love to get some black type with her. The Firth of Clyde might be just the race for her. I bet we see her at the Fred Darling at Newbury in April.”

Levey also reacted to the victory, saying: “She’s a beautiful filly. She’s laid back and only does what you ask her to do. We liked her from the get go. I had the race put to bed from a long way out. She pulled up a little bit at the end.”

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