Ascot heroine faces Hinton challenge

Ed Dunlop would like to see plenty of pace on as Habaayib bids to follow up her Royal Ascot win in the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket.The Royal Applause filly is set to go off a short-priced favourite following her one-and-a-quarter-length success over the well-regarded Lillie Langtry in the Albany Stakes.He told At The Races: "What I particularly remember (about Ascot) is the way she travelled in the race, she looked to be travelling best of all and came through and won."He added: "You can't fault the way she did it. We always thought she was a nice filly but she was hard to assess going into the race because at home she tends to just do enough."She works with her lead horse, she wins her gallop and pricks her ears and doesn't go flamboyantly clear or anything."Habaayib took it up inside the distance in the Albany and with Dunlop sticking to six furlongs again, he is hoping for a similarly furious pace."At Ascot they always go fast, but the one thing with this race is we're taking on the Queen Mary second, third and fourth and they're going up in distance, so will they go as fast as they did in the Queen Mary?" he added."I hope there's some pace and if there is, we will ride her in similar fashion. It's a different track, to come from off the pace could be a little bit complicated but we will leave it in Richard Hills' capable hands. "There are some unexposed fillies and there is the Queen Mary form. They're all dangerous and we may well be a short-priced favourite but I'm far from thinking it's going to be a breeze."