Daily Mail - 30th April 2008

Dascombe full of hope for his Classic outsider

By Marcus Townend - More by this author »
Last updated at 22:43pm on 29th April 2008

Lambourn trainer Tom Dascombe should know a few things about talented fillies.

As a one-time assistant to successful South African trainer Mike de Kock, Dascombe was involved in the training of two Group One winning filies in Ipi Tombe, who captured the 2003 Dubai Duty Free, and Crimson Palace, who landed the following year's Beverly D Stakes at Arlington.

Tom Dascombe has come a long way since falling off Pond House in the 1998 Grand National (Comment by Ben: Not correct! Pond House pulled up after a circuit he didn't fall)

That involvement would suggest that Dascombe's decision to throw Max One Two Three into Sunday's Stan James 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket isn't just a fanciful dream by a hopeless optimist.

As short as 25-1 in some books but still avalailable at 40-1, Max One Two Three falls into the outsider category.

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