SUNDAY'S Gold Cup looms large on the horizon with the Patrick Biancone-trained Bumper Star set to be looming large on his rivals heels as they come inside the final 200 metres of the 2,000-metre contest.
The prolific son of Carmelite House is the most exciting horse in training at the moment as it is simply impossible to know, just yet, how good he is going to become under the care of the master French handler.
Because when Patrick gets a good one, there is no finer trainer in the world at extracting every last ounce of potential.
Bumper Star has won five in succession since joining Biancone at the start of the season and his past seven in all.
The beauty of the horse is that the harder the races have become and the more weight he has been asked to shoulder, the more emphatic have been his victories.
And he gets on so, so well with his jockey Eric Legrix who knows exactly how to make Bumper Star relax and when to put his foot on the accelerator.