Barry Hills's love affair with Chester continues unabated following a near 35 to 1 double highlighted and completed by a third success in the Chester Vase yesterday.
Hills was double-handed in the Group Three event and it was the outsider of the pair - 12 to 1 shot Mr Combustible - who took the honours with a three-quarters of a length verdict over Snowstorm.
The Hernando colt is entered in the Epsom Derby together with stable-mates Chancellor, Storming Home and Perfect Sunday.
Of the quartet Chancellor goes straight to Epsom, Perfect Sunday contests Saturday's Lingfield Derby Trial while Storming Home goes to York next week for the Dante Stakes, according to Hills.
However, Hills plans to keep his options open for Mr Combustible who has entries all over Europe. "He's also in the French and Italian Derbys and the King Edward at Royal Ascot," he said.
"He's got a half-sister who won the Ribblesdale and the Park Hill, so the St Leger would be very much a race I would have in the back of my mind."
"It will have done him a lot of good going round today but we'll have to discuss where he goes next."
Mr Combustible is part-owned by Dick Bonnycastle, in whose colours the colt runs and who named the horse after Hills, thanks to the trainer's reputation for occasional bursts of volatility.
