MARCUS Tregoning is hoping Impressor can live up to his name and deliver the trainer his second Newbury Group race win of the year in the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes on Saturday.

The Derby-winning trainer saddled Mohaather to land the Group Three Watership Down Stud Greenham Stakes at the track in April and earmarked the feature prize of Dubai Duty Free International Weekend for Impressor after he recorded an easy win at Salisbury last month.

Impressor was one of 14 five-day acceptors for the Group Two prize, named after legendary Derby and Arc winner Mill Reef and which has been won in the past by the likes of Harry Angel and Ribchester.

Richard Hannon has included Mystery Power, winner of the Group Two Superlative Stakes this summer, while Shadn, a previous course winner who finished third in the Group Three Prestige Stakes, and Gimcrack fourth Malotru are also engaged.

Impressor finished an unlucky-in-running fourth on his Goodwood debut, but made no mistake next time out when winning a novice race at Salisbury by three-and-a-half lengths on Good to Soft going.

Tregoning said: “Obviously the Salisbury race which he won so easily was on totally different ground to what he is likely to get at Newbury, but having said that I don’t see why he shouldn’t handle it. He is by Footstepsinthesand and most handle the fast ground which we’ve seen recently when he has been getting quite a few winners.

“We are very pleased with the way Impressor has taken that Salisbury race. We will find out how good he is, but hopefully he will go there with a reasonable chance.

“He was unlucky at Goodwood, but he was quite an inexperienced horse and that can catch them out especially jumping out straight down that hill.

“We couldn’t have been more pleased with the way he won that race at Salisbury. He won it very, very well and he’s worked well since. He does have a lot of speed.

"We had him in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, which I am sure he would have gone very well in, but decided he shows so much speed we would keep him to the six furlongs for now.”

The £75,000 Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes will be one of three Group races staged on the card, which will also feature the Group Three Dubai Duty Free Legacy Cup, Group Three Dubai International Airport World Trophy Stakes and the Dubai Duty Free Handicap.