Tisbutadream leaves England to join Cecil's stable

CYPRESS, Calif. – Tisbutadream, a minor stakes winner in England last year, has joined trainer Ben Cecil’s stable for the Del Mar summer meeting. The 4-year-old filly is owned by King Power Racing, the stable of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the owner of the Leicester City soccer team in the English Premier League.

Leicester City famously won the Premier League title in the 2015-16 season at odds as high as 5,000-1.

Tisbutadream, previously trained by David Elsworth, arrived in Southern California this week and could start in the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Handicap, a $200,000 race for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on turf Aug. 4, “if all goes well,” Cecil said.

By Dream Ahead, Tisbutadream has won 5 of 16 starts. She won the Coral Distaff Stakes at a mile at Sandown Park last July and was third in Group 3 races at Deauville, France, and Sandown later that summer. In her only start this year, Tisbutadream was seventh in the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket, England, on May 6.