Belle Vue racing manager Dave Breayshaw thinks the recent announcement of the William Hill “win and you’re in” Derby Trialstakes might prove a tempter for trainers considering entering in the forthcoming RPGTV Scottish Derby.

Brayshaw said: “We only heard about the trialstakes a couple of days before they were announced and a lot of trainers had committed to Shawfield by then.

“I noticed that June McCombe has sent the likes of Cashen Maureen and Metro Jack to Scotland.

“But there has been considerable interest in the trialstakes which have excellent prize money – £2,000 for one run – and a few other trainers have indicated that they will be coming here.”

Among them was Ian Aylward whose Baliff Hubert clocked 27.52 (calc) for the track’s 470 metres in a trial today (Tuesday).

It was his first outing over four bends in almost a year having run behind Newinn Yolo in last year’s Gymcrack qualifiers.

Brayshaw said: “Ian has certainly indicated that today’s trial was a warm-up for the William Hill race. I don’t think we will be short of top class entries.”

The William Hill “win and you’re in” Derby Trialstakes takes place on Wednesday April 15 and closes on the prior Monday lunchtime.

One runner unlikely to take part, despite boasting a 2015 record of eight wins from twelve starts is local graded After Milo.

The Joy Andrews trained runner completed an 875-1 five-timer at the weekend.

Brayshaw said: “He’s quite amazing. He beat Coolamaddy Jumbo over hurdles here last year and already this year he has won over 470m, 590m, 670m and hurdles.

“I would say he was probably the best dog here over 590, 670 and hurdles.

“He is quite an interesting runner because he was originally with Ron Barber but after joining Joy he had ‘a look’ in one of his races.

“He went over hurdles but was so much better than everything else that we couldn’t get a race for him.

“Eventually Joy decided that it had been such a long time since he had done anything wrong that it would be worth trying him back on the flat.

“He hasn’t shown a sign of doing anything wrong ever since and won his 670 race by four lengths.”