MARK PRESCOTT can get back to his roots at Haydock today. The trainer has enjoyed unprecedented success at the very highest level of late, landing pattern races with Pivotal, Red Camellia and Brave Act in the last month.

But in 25 years with a licence he has made largely his name with well-plotted coups in lesser company or handicaps.

And he can prove he has not lost the knack by taking the Stanley Leisure Group Handicap with Warming Trends who looks lined up for an assault on the ring.

Prescott will be hoping to catch the bookmakers unaware with the three-year-old who has run only once this year and comes here after a four-month lay-off.

But Pivotal's reappearance success at Royal Ascot this term showed his shrewd trainer's skill at getting horses ready at home.

And Warming Trends need only be fairly straight to be very hard to beat.

He ran a fine race when third on unsuitably firm ground at Newmarket in May, beaten little over a length in a competitive seven-furlong event.

That contest has thrown up numerous subsequent winners and the colt is obviously well treated on the same mark here. And there will be even better to come today now that the going has eased.

Warming Trends improved into a useful performer with three nursery wins on an easy surface last September and looks poised to resume his progress with another success 12 months on.

The Haydock Park Sprint Cup may be a Group One event but it will have little bearing on Europe's sprint championship with Anabaa and Pivotal both absent.

Strict choice on form of those remaining is French raider Miesque's Son, runner-up to Anabaa in the Prix Maurice de Gheest last time.

But he'll be a short price for his first race in this country and a better bet may be the Deauville third Danehill Dancer who has only a head to make up on the favourite but is available at three times his price.

Halmanerror is well worth another chance in the Ladbroke Handicap which should be run at the strong pace he needs to be fully effective.

When he last had a good gallop the six-year-old scored in good style at Doncaster by two and a half lengths from Royal Dome