La Botte is limbering up for a shot at the William Hill Lincoln when the British Flat season officially gets under way at Doncaster at the end of the month.
Trained in Newmarket by Harry Eustace, the Too Darn Hot colt went close in the Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot last year when defeated only a neck.
That was his third and final run as a three-year-old, and he returned to action at four when finishing fourth in the Lincoln Trial at Wolverhampton the week before last.
“He seems in good order, he obviously hadn’t run since Ascot last year and we were very keen to get a run into him,” said Eustace.
“He was a little bit jarred up after Ascot and then he was potentially going to go to Australia, so that changed how we campaigned him though there wasn’t actually anything stopping him from getting to the track.
“In the end his owners decided to give him another season here and as he hadn’t run for a long time, we were keen, mentally, to get him to the races.
“He’s going to carry a lot of weight, but he seems in good order. I’ve always thought he actually wanted a bit of juice in the ground so the going doesn’t put us off at all, if anything we’re quite looking forward to running him on it.”
