Hemingway may not figure among the Ballydoyle quartet for tomorrow's Dewhurst Stakes, but the highly-rated, Aidan O'Brien-trained colt is still set for Group One action before the season is over.
A spokesperson for O'Brien confirmed yesterday that Doncaster's Racing Post Trophy on Saturday week "is in mind" for the unbeaten Spectrum colt, who missed the Prix de la Salamandre due to injury.
Hemingway has won both his starts to date at Galway and York, where he landed the Acomb Stakes, and O'Brien has landed the mile Racing Post Trophy twice in recent years with Saratoga Springs and Aristotle.
O'Brien's focus will be on Giant's Causeway's effort on Southwell's all-weather surface today, but he also runs El Bueno in the mile maiden at Gowran, and the Curragh runner-up holds an obvious chance.
Preference, however, is for Gold Prospector, who ran third to the Group winner Imagine and the subsequent winner Dance Till Dawn over the course and distance last time.
The most valuable race on the card is the £20,000 Powers Gold Label Handicap Hurdle, where Pat Hughes and Arthur Moore saddle three horses apiece.
Conor O'Dwyer is on The Gatherer for Moore, and although the horse hasn't run since April The Gatherer is just given a tentative nod ahead of the likes of Gift Token and the John Kiely-trained Listowel winner Hot Stuff.
Hughes should end up saddling the winner of the amateur riders race with Mantles Prince. The Ladbroke Hurdle winner won on the flat, and on the heavy, at Navan last spring, and with an 80 rating should be up to scoring again.
