My Dream Boat (foaled 17 April 2012) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his upset victory in the 2016 Prince of Wales's Stakes. As a two-year-old in 2014 he showed promise but failed to win in three races. In the following year he made steady progress, winning two handicap races before moving up in class in the autumn to win the Listed Prix du Ranelagh and the Group Three Prix Perth. He improved again when campaigned over longer distances as a four-year-old, taking the Gordon Richards Stakes in April and then defeating a world-class field in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. Background My Dream Boat is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by Patrick Monahan. Having been withdrawn from sale as a foal in November 2012, the colt was put up for auction at Goffs as a yearling in February 2013 and was sold for €3,500 to Patrick Moyles. My Dream Boat was offered for sale at Goffs again in October 2013 and attracted rather more interest, being bought for €16,000 by Shanavill Stables. In April 2014 the colt appeared at Doncaster in a "breeze-up" sale (one in which the horses are publicly galloped before being auctioned). He was bought for £40,000 by the trainer Donald McCain in partnership with Tom Malone. My Dream Boat entered the ownership of Paul and Claire Rooney and was taken into training with McCain at Cholmondeley in Cheshire. He was from the first crop of foals sired by Lord Shanakill, a sprinter-miler whose biggest win came in the 2009 Prix Jean Prat. My Dream Boat dam Betty Burke showed very modest racing ability, with her only win in a twenty-race career coming in a minor handicap race at Fairyhouse. Her dam was a half-sister to Optimistic Lass, who won the Nassau Stakes in 1984 and was the female-line ancestor of Alice Springs, Golden Opinion and the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Samitar. Racing career 2014: two-year-old season My Dream Boat made his racecourse debut in a maiden race over six furlongs at Hamilton Park Racecourse on 18 June in which he started a 33/1 outsider and finished second of the eight runners, two and three quarter lengths behind the winner Lady Desire. The colt was better fancied in his two subsequent races that year but failed to win as he finished second to