The Grey Gatsby, Western Hymn and Tryster (Jebel Hatta). The favourite went to the front from the start with Kirby holding up My Dream Boat at the rear of the field before switching to the outside to make his challenge in the straight. The Japanese champion faltered two furlongs out and gave way to Found with My Dream Boat quickly moving up into second. My Dream Boat maintained his run, overtook the Irish filly in the final strides and won by a neck with a gap of three and a half lengths back to Western Hymn in third. After the race Kirby admitted that he was not sure that he had won before the result of the photo-finish was announced. Cox said "I’m blown away. I was full of admiration for the Japanese horse when we took him on in France but I knew we didn’t quite run our race. He found a perfect rhythm today and really found when Adam asked him to stretch". In his three remaining races of 2016 My Dream Boat failed to win but produced some creditable efforts in defeat. At Sandown in July he started joint-third favourite for the Eclipse Stakes but never looked likely to win and finished fifth behind Hawkbill, The Gurkha, Time Test and Countermeasure. Autumn The Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse in September was arguably the best race run in Europe in 2016 and My Dream Boat started a 33/1 outsider in a twelve-runner field. He finished fifth behind Almanzor, Found, Minding and New Bay with Highland Reel, Harzand and Hawkbill finishing in seventh, eighth and ninth places. He ended his season in the Champion Stakes at Ascot on 15 October in which he stayed on in the closing stages to finish fourth of the ten runners behind Almanzor, Found and Jack Hobbs. 2017: five-year-old season On his five-year-old debut My Dream Boat started favourite as he attempted to repeat his 2016 success in the Gordon Richards Stakes but finished third behind Ulysses. He was then stepped up in distance for the Aston Park Stakes at Newbury and finished second to Hawkbill in May. In July he ran fourth in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and then came home seventh behind the filly Enable. In the International Stakes at York in August he started a 28/1 outsider and finished last of the seven runners behind Ulysses. Assessment In the